The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.
Here’s a funny-because-it’s-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter’s Politics:
https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8
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This shit angers me to no end. Where I live, they built this wonderful highway around the greater metro area. Said it’d be a toll road for 25 years until paid off. We’re on year 29 now, because they needed to “update” it.
Then, you find out the tolls are managed by a for-profit company in Saudi Arabia…? The express lanes, that cause more traffic and wrecks than a simple exspansion of lanes, is ran buy a for-profit company, in a foreign country. It makes no sense, unless you’re a fan of unregulated capitalism, I guess.