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DEBATE: TRUCK LANES * USA - Big-rig lobby wants to slam brakes on mandatory toll use
The state is getting to the point of making some decisions, and controversy is starting to surfaceAtlanta,GA,USA -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by ARIEL HART -27 May 2007: -- ... No decisions have been made about what to build to deal with increasing truck traffic from the Atlanta airport and the Savannah ports and other business passing through the Georgia crossroads of metro Atlanta — or how to pay for it... Even now, traffic tops 10,000 trucks per day on the north end of I-285 and 30,000 trucks per day on parts of I-75... It's not the usual: Truckers and car drivers who might be expected to brawl over who owns the highway frequently seem in harmony over the benefits of building separate lanes for trucks, for safety if nothing else... What often divides them is whether truckers should be forced to use them and pay a toll... State and national trucking groups couldn't disagree more. They point out that they pay 24.4 cents federal tax per gallon of diesel to car drivers' 18.4 cents per gallon of gas, and that they carry goods those car drivers wear, eat and use. They say truckers should have a choice... The stagnant gas tax, which doesn't rise with inflation, is one reason tolls are an issue at all...
* USA - Make truckers pay for lanes
Atlanta,GA,USA -Atlanta Magazine On Line, by Doug Monroe -May 27, 2007: -- Toll truck-only lanes are a good idea. Have you been on the interstates around here lately? All trucks. All speeding. Truckers like the idea of truck lanes, until they're asked to pay... "I didn't know they were going to be tolled," [truck owner Perry Wilson] said. If they're mandatory, "that's going to put it on the back of the trucking companies to build the roads"... They SHOULD build the roads. Of course, the trucking industry doesn't want to pay for tearing up the highways. They've never paid their fair share for the damage they cause and they lobby very effectively to remain a beneficiary of the socialistic world of road-building -- the state bears the cost of their doing business...
Atlanta,GA,USA -Atlanta Magazine On Line, by Doug Monroe -May 27, 2007: -- Toll truck-only lanes are a good idea. Have you been on the interstates around here lately? All trucks. All speeding. Truckers like the idea of truck lanes, until they're asked to pay... "I didn't know they were going to be tolled," [truck owner Perry Wilson] said. If they're mandatory, "that's going to put it on the back of the trucking companies to build the roads"... They SHOULD build the roads. Of course, the trucking industry doesn't want to pay for tearing up the highways. They've never paid their fair share for the damage they cause and they lobby very effectively to remain a beneficiary of the socialistic world of road-building -- the state bears the cost of their doing business...
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