Comments on: Start of 520 bridge tolls, Tacoma Narrows photo tolls set for December

By: sunlover

sunlover — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 04:27:45 +0000

“It has been no secret that we’ve had challenges getting this system up and running, and the work has been more difficult than we anticipated,” Dye said. “The requirements we’ve established are rigorous because we want to be totally accountable for the tolls that are collected. This doesn’t mean it can’t be done – it just means we’re on the cutting edge of tolling technology in Washington and it has taken longer to ensure that everything is ready.”

Let me look at some key words in this simple paragraph from the #2 guy at WSDOT: secret, challenges, difficult, anticipated, rigorous, accountable, it can’t be done, cutting edge and taken longer.

Now let me write the true paragraph using the same words.

We have tried to keep it a secret that the challenges we found were more difficult than any of us could have anticipated because we are not as rigorous and accountable as you may think we are. We have decided that it can’t be done so even though the rest of the US knows how to perform photo tolling we chose to lie to you about Washington being on the cutting edge and we knew all along it will take longer and more of your money than any of us protected state workers could ever have anticpated but want to thank you for a career designed all around one tolling project – the 520 bridge.

The only thing cutting edge about WSDOT management is when they shave.

By: PolarBear53

PolarBear53 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:36:56 +0000

serendipity, really ?? Did you just say that? Please explain how this is Eymans fault.

By: pgroup

pgroup — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:57:08 +0000

Omega6234 claims to not understand tolls on roads that are already paid with taxes. This is lesson # 23 in the Democrat Money Machine Operating Manual for Extracting Money From WA Residents.

The manual comes up for renewed approval every couple of years in November.

By: opinionsarelike

opinionsarelike — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:56:36 +0000

Merry Christmas!!!

By: Loneranger

Loneranger — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:31:03 +0000

serendipity thinks that Eyman is responsible for this, not hardly, the THIEVES IN CONTROL OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE ARE TO BLAME.

THEY CONTINUE TO GIVE THE TAX PAYERS MONEY AWAY TO A BOAT LOAD OF FREE HANDERS AND BUTT SITTERS THAT CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO THIS ECONOMY AND TAKE TAKE AND TAKE MORE.

THEY HAVE TAXED THE REAL TAXPAYER TO DEATH IN THIS STATE AND NO PASS ALONG THEIR INCOMPETENCE AND ARROGANCE IN THE FORM OF A ROAD TOLL….

TIME TO CLEAN THE DEMOCRATS OUT OF THE HOUSE AND SENATE, THEY HAVE PROVED TIME AND AGAIN, THEY ONLY KNOW TWO THINGS, TAX AND SPEND.

IT IS TIME FOR ALL TAXATION TO BE MANDATED BY A SUPER MAJORITY IN THIS STATE. AS WELL, IF YOU DO NOT HAVE 50% +1 OFF ALL REGISTERED VOTERS IN THIS STATE VOTING FOR A TAX MEASURE, IT CANNOT BE CERTIFIED AS WELL.

TIME TO GIVE THE REAL TAX PAYER A VOICE IN HOW THEY ARE TAXED, INSTEAD OF THE MAJORITY OF NON-TAXPAYERS VOTING ON THEM TO FOOT THE BILL FOR THEIR FREE-BE’S……ENOUGH OF IT ALL !!!!

By: Loneranger

Loneranger — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:19:29 +0000

I will never take the 520 bridge as long as there is a toll.

I avoid the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and no longer go over to the Peninsula for anything..if I cannot drive on a free road paid by my taxes, i have no desire ever to travel on it again as long as the toll is in effect.

The State can choke on the cost, they have diverted so much money to pay for free-be for allot of butt sitters that I no longer have any faith in the State elected officials on the Democrat side…to ever do what is fiduciary and right with any tax dollar they can lay their filthy little fingers on. they have proved themselves incompetent and crooked down to the core…..

By: serendipity

serendipity — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 20:06:05 +0000

Dear Mr. Eyman: Thank you for your ongoing penalties to the poor by trapping them from coming over bridges so you don’t have to see them. I mean, your Ralph Lauren clothing would shreak at the site of us. Yes, I am very poor. Thank you so much, Mr. Eyman. May the next life be painful for you.

By: majordysfunkshun

majordysfunkshun — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 19:36:24 +0000

“Let the toll collecting conspiracy nazis unite.”

*crickets*

medication time!

By: Omega6234

Omega6234 — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:25:42 +0000

I guess i still dont understand tolling when we pay taxes for such things. Is this like the deductable on insurance? It would be like paying rent in an apartment building then having a fee to use the elevator.

By: mojjonation

mojjonation — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:08:09 +0000

Let the toll collecting conspiracy nazis unite.