It'd be a welcome breathe of fresh air if the Minnesota legislature
would pass gas! They are so incompetent, they can't pass anything.
The State is going to be shutting down July 1st. So I expect the
road construction projects are going to stop next week.
Democrat or Republican, it doesn't matter. All of them need to be
thrown out.
The Constitution says they have to end the session on certain days.
The Govenor has had to call a Special session every year for at least
5 years now. And more often than not in the 13 years, I've lived here.
And we pay the idiots extra for them to do nothing in the special session!
Oh, also, MinDOT put in a new system of paying for the 'sane lane'.
In addition to the changing direction lanes in the middle. They took
away a regular lane on I-394 all day long. It caused traffic jams going
any direction all the time. After 3 weeks, against the wishes of the
Feds, they changed the charge lane to only rush hour times (in the
normal rush hour direction).
Paul.
Dave Wood wrote:
> CR, et all,
>
> Having lived in Oregon for the past 45 years or so, I can almost promise you
> that the current state legislature won't pass any bills in the near future.
> About all they can pass is gas!
>
> Dave 72 B
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles & Peggy Robinson" <ccrobins@ktc.com>
> To: "Rocky Frisco" <rock@rocky-frisco.com>
> Cc: <mgs@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 7:01 AM
> Subject: Re: Road Pricing
>
>
> Rocky Frisco wrote:
>
>>Bill Saidel wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hans (and anyone else),
>>> What does that term, Road pricing mean? I'm not familiar with
>>>the term and am trying to figure it out from your rant.
>>
>>
>>The version they are toying with here in the USA is to have all vehicles
>>fitted with chips that will show their location, speed and miles
>>traveled. You will be taxed according to how many miles the vehicle
>>travels. This also allows them to keep track of your location and speed
>>in realtime. George Orwell was a dewy-eyed optimist.
>>
>>-Rock
>
>
> If the Oregon initiative on this works out to their satisfaction
> they'll pass a law that makes it a felony to screw with the chip. I
> wonder if they plan to retrofit our MGs, etc.
>
> CR
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