Iowa Toll Road?
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Yeah suppose working from home now full time, I should be against this but I guess the times I do travel I like convenience.
0. What they are proposing would all be cashless. There would be 11 toll "sites" across the state, but no stopping and nothing at the exits.
https://www.press-citizen.com/story...ible-option-but-opposition-abounds/443028002/
Des Moines to Omaha is brutal, trucks block both lanes coming out of DM and you can't pass until Van Meter or De Soto exits. It could narrow after that but the first 10-15 miles out of town is awful.
I-380 is like Road Warrior for idiots
Don't do it, Iowa. Don't open that box.
The toll road would never leave. It will expand and expand and never go away.
It's a deal with the devil. A bad deal with the devil
The toll road would never leave. It will expand and expand and never go away.
It's a deal with the devil. A bad deal with the devil
Pretty much. I drive from Chicago to Kansas City a few times a year, and Chicago to Colorado once a year. I-80 through Iowa is beyond frustrating. Nothing but waiting behind one semi while it tries to pass another semi. They take five minutes each time, and it's freaking Groundhog Day because it happens so often.
So then you are only really tolling people that travel across at least two of those sites a toll. Between the sites in Scott and Cedar counties alone I counted 5 interchanges that you could get on and off at.
Study after study show the more lanes you add, the more traffic you add. Right now, based off trip numbers, the busiest two sections of Interstate are 35 between Ames and Des Moines (about 45,000 ADT) and 380 between Cedar Rapids and Iowa City (about 50,000 ADT). Outside of the DM metro, 80 is busiest between the Quad Cities and Iowa City, but it is still between 30,000 and 35,000 ADT.
Get the first two done, and then worry about 80. I like the idea of a toll road as it brings in out of state monies to help pay for it.
Get the first two done, and then worry about 80. I like the idea of a toll road as it brings in out of state monies to help pay for it.
Disagree! New Jersey has essentially had the two major north/south roads tolled for decades and decades. Everyone loves riding on the Jersey Turnpike and the Garden State Parkway, and New Jersey is considered one of the nicest most livable of the states.
winking pirate
I'm fine paying a toll for 3 lanes as long as semi's are not allowed in the far left (passing) lane.
At that rate, that's $24.48 for a car and $73.44 for a truck to cross Iowa. As a reference, Pennsylvania is $39 for a car and $79 for a truck if you use the turnpike all the way across the state. That's a bunch of $'s...
So what are you saying? Are you saying Iowa is a less expensive per mile. It looks like the Pennsylvania turnpike is about 50 miles longer.
I’m skeptical that adding a third lane will add enough new drivers to make congestion equal. Are people really taking other routes to avoid it right now? Imo it’s not that type of traffic.
Tolls are efficient. Those that don’t value the speed and lack of congestion can go elsewhere, thereby accomplishing some of the objective prior to the addition.
I'm not a huge fan of tolls, but then at least the people who are using the road are paying for the maintenance, which might be a fairer way to do things.
living in Cedar Rapids, I'm not looking forward to the increase in traffic on HWY 30 that this will cause.
living in Cedar Rapids, I'm not looking forward to the increase in traffic on HWY 30 that this will cause.
I lived in Chicago for several years and when coming back to eastern Iowa to visit family during that time would take the I-88 toll. I don't know what they did with those dollars but I don't think much maintenance of the roads was involved. I-88 was always in pretty bad shape.
