Message from @wahx
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when you cross a roll
Toll
Instead of stopping and paying
The toll road scans your car for it and automatically takes money out of an account
oh tight, private or government?
Saving time
I don’t actually know
Lol
I’ll look it up 1 sec
I would assume private
yee just curious, i would assume that too
Oh it’s only in MA
rip
competition doesn't apply to bridges: you have to cross specific bridges to get to specific places (that's how bridges work)
oh gotcha
and it’s private he’s
Yes*
I bet other places have other programs similar
yea
programs similar lol idk why I phrased it that way
I understood either way xD
Another problem with that is
I live on cape cod
And when they were fixing the bridges
It was fucking aids
To cross
ooof I feel that, had a similar situation a couple summers ago
Took around 1-2hours to get to the mainland
yeah I mean there's no good way around that right? when you need to update infrastructure people are just boned who have to interact with that infrastructure
but I don't think that's an excuse to not repair things
like it sucks but we gotta do it
and last I checked our bridges are in a *seriously* bad state
and if they fail then the government is gonna have to intervene, and it'll be way more expensive to deal with a broken bridge than to repair an existing one
"wahxToday at 20:25
what? how does that make sense. You have to cross a bridge, and you can't cross any other bridge, why would they want to lower that cost?"
Competition between other methods of transport
The bridges are currently a monopoly
and it's the reason why it's so broken, not maintained well
Not to mention congestion and traffic blocks due to the free rider problem
free rider program?
which would be solved in a privatised system
Free rider problem