For years now, I've been driving back and forth from D.C. to New York whenever we go to visit Dineen's folks. The drive can take as little as five hours or as many as ten, depending almost entirely on the backlog at the half-dozen or so toll booths along the route.
Sometimes, the lines stretch for miles - like last Thanksgiving weekend, when we sat for an hour in Delaware. Now that EZ-Pass is generally available up and down the whole route, that helps in less congested times, but on days when you can't even get to the toll booth because the fellow in the Winnebago dropped his quarter and spent ten minutes looking for it, EZ-Pass trims mere minutes off an extended ordeal of stop-and-go-very-slowly.
I began to realize that tolls on interstate highways might be considered a barrier to interstate commerce, and ought to be banned as the Constitution would require.
The New Republic, it seems, might agree.
(Note: The diatribe about "pro-management" corporate law completely ignores the existence of Nevada.)
Posted by wasylik at August 17, 2002 01:04 AM