Well SB 1585 has now made it out of the State Senate Transportation. After a presentation from a group advocating For Privatization of HOV lanes. Now beside the HOV on the I17 this bill has now been amended to include the SR51. Now these lanes that were paid for by all taxpayer as HOV, would now be available for single person cars if you're willing to pay the "Bribe". Sen. Gorman and Sen. Gould are only seeing the money.
What about the morals?
These legislators were completely against the cameras on Loop 101 in Scottsdale, but enforcement of these new toll road would be made with cameras. So no big brother on Loop 101 because we don't make money, but camera's on I17 and SR51 are OK because we make money on that.
I know I've heard Sen. Gorman in past make statement that any increase of fees is a tax increase. But here she is wanting to create fees. Her argument is that this fee is an optional, but is most fees are "optional". Because you don't HAVE to be a real estate agent, but you have to pay a fee to get a license if you do. You don't HAVE to be a Securities dealer, but if you want to you pay a fee to get that license. A fee is a tax.
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Why have any HOV lanes? Governments have been experimenting with HOV lanes for decades now, hoping they would be an incentive to car-pooling, but it hasn't worked. If the purpose of highways are to speed traffic from one point to another, why have one lane underused while the other lanes are backed up.
Privatizing HOV lanes is a simply silly idea. The taxpayers own the highways, how can they be privatized without the private owner paying back the taxpayers the money they spent building the highways, that's billions of dollars worth of construction.
We the taxpayers paid for our highways for the purpose of speeding the flow of traffic, therefore, keep the HOV lanes public, better yet, make the HOV lanes regular traffic lanes and end the experiment.
Bob Haran,
www.Bob-Haran.info
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