Should we collect tolls on existing interstate highways?

Why are we being tolled on the section of I540 which has already been built with tax dollars? The technology they are using to charge the tolls is capable of only charging on the new sections and not on the completed section so why do we have to double pay for that portion of road? What was the limited circumstance that the Federal government allowed that 2 mile section of NC 540 to be tolled? Is it that they are afraid that everyone will get off at NC 55 and say to h*%$ with the tolls? Is the thought that if I have you paying to get to NC55 you will pay to go the whole way? I say it’s the back roads for me.

To the legislature: Yes, toll roads, increase taxes, raise the state healthcare premiums, and while you are at it, just get a tube and gallon jug so you can collect blood too. Who has money to pay tolls when the state fails to regulate insurance rates on vehicles, people have to pay car tags and high taxes, fix cars due to all the bumpy, potholed, unmaintained roads and get robbed at the repair shop, buy gas at unpredictable rates, and nobody's wages are increasing? What are these people smoking ? Perhaps they should administer drug tests to these elected officials.

Corruption, tax, tax, tax, and now tolls - i think we have been annexed by New Jersey and they forgot to tell us.... All we need now is a good mob presence and we'll be the true garden state of the south! Is Tony Soprano available?!?!

There is a reason that millions and millions of people have fled the north east.

Out of control government spending, taxation, and feeing people to death.

Yet every day our government here is implementing more and more and more of what drove myself and millions of others out of the north east.

We and others will leave here as well.

If tolls are collected on all interstate highways more and more people will start going the back roads again - I know I will, no matter how much longer it takes me to get somewhere. The toll roads will not pay for themselves and then the highway department will want a tax on the tax (which is what toll fees are). I still predict NC will go bankrupt before or soon after Beverly Perdue leaves office in 2012 because all she knows how to do is tax, tax, tax, and eliminate jobs. Eliminating jobs increases unemployment which in turn leads to less state income collected and other taxes collected because people do not have money to spend. I'm not a trained economist and I know that. The more taxes put on NC citizens and the less tax will be collected. My job was eliminated and I will be going to Tennessee or Virginia after Sept. 1 to do my shopping. I already purchase most of my gas in Tennessee.

Yes!