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2019-2020 NFL Season Thread [ARCHIVED] Football • Page 863

Discussion in 'Sports Forum' started by Max_123, Feb 16, 2019.

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  1. Fucking Dustin

    Tell me what I missed Supporter

    I think Fort Worth isn't too bad about it (@Dinosaurs Dish confirm?) but Dallas is a mess for sure

    They made half of 635 a toll road which is fine, at least there you have a choice, but yeah DNT and GWB are so major you can't not use them a lot of the time without increasing your daily commute time by an absurd amount

    And I live RIGHT at the intersection of DNT and GWB so fuck me
     
  2. Dinosaurs Dish

    Prestigious Prestigious

    They’re practically non-existent over here, but yeah, if you’re driving around Dallas and don’t know exactly where you’re going, it’s super simple to rack up $50+ easily. My friend was over $300 before she even got the first bill in the mail when she started working out there. Such a mess.
     
  3. Randall Mentzos

    When you hit a mothafucka, you hit that mothafucka Prestigious

    Oh man yes x1000. I get using them to split up traffic, so that drivers help pay for infrastructure as a trade-off to use the newer less-traffic road... but if it’s the ONLY way you can get to a specific side of town that’s bogus and literally just an extra tax
     
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  4. CarpetElf

    chorus's #3 oklahoma city comets fan Prestigious

    Theres a neighborhood in Austin that you can either take a toll road to get through or you can drive east into southAustin then up and across downtown,
     
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  5. CarpetElf

    chorus's #3 oklahoma city comets fan Prestigious

    It doesnt even really split up traffic.

    It's like, if you ask a group of people "hey, want a convenient shortcut?" They all say yes and then you're somehow just paying to be stuck in traffic
     
  6. Randall Mentzos

    When you hit a mothafucka, you hit that mothafucka Prestigious

    Texas sounds so fucking extra about tolls.

    In DC they were used strictly to split up/ subsidize traffic, but going the free way wasn’t actually a longer distance, just more cars.

    Only toll I hated there was the road that went to Dulles airport - I worked an internship out there.
     
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  7. I hate the bridge tolls to get out of new jersey into PA
     
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  8. Max_123

    Nope. Supporter

    Our toll road is super cool cause we voted to let a private company fund the thing and it should be paid off by now heh
     
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  9. Randall Mentzos

    When you hit a mothafucka, you hit that mothafucka Prestigious

    Eh, people are more cheap than you think hahaha. I feel like at least 70% of drivers would not pay that every day both ways to work if they had the choice. People already budgeting $2.63 tips on top of $15.37 business lunches at my job, instead of just tipping $3 or making the total an even $20, justifying it to themselves like “well that’s 20% of SALES not including TAX”, if you think just because those people drive a Mercedes that they wouldn’t rather scream in traffic than pay $3 tolls you’re mistaken hahah
     
  10. Max_123

    Nope. Supporter

    We're also doing this really cool thing now on all our highways making the left lane a toll lane but like 1/20 cars uses it so now there's even more traffic in the other lanes heh
     
  11. Fucking Dustin

    Tell me what I missed Supporter

    That's what we did to 635 at first hahaha
     
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  12. Fucking Dustin

    Tell me what I missed Supporter

    Beginning to think conservatives might not have my best interests in mind
     
  13. xbrokendownx

    Lets Go. Prestigious

    I went up to my buddy's house in Yonkers on Saturday for our fantasy football draft

    between the highway tolls and bridge tolls I think it was close to $40. For a ~100 mile drive.
     
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  14. Randall Mentzos

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    See? People be cheap. Toll roads in DC were smooth flowing. Best if you had to drive a long distance. The one that parallels the Beltway literally turned an hour to 1.5 hour drive from my place in Millersville to my drummer’s pad in Rockville... into a breezy 35-40 minutes
     
  15. Randall Mentzos

    When you hit a mothafucka, you hit that mothafucka Prestigious

    NYC tolls are the worst. That city is like a modern fortress. You have to pay many tolls to many one eyed trolls to enter that labyrinth
     
  16. Randall Mentzos

    When you hit a mothafucka, you hit that mothafucka Prestigious

    I remember the Staten Island ferry was the cheapest and quickest way to get to the rest of NYC from the southside (never drive in NYC. Park, take the ferry then take the subway, it’s faster and way cheaper).

    I think the ferry itself is free which is rad if you live there... but that’s after I, a Baltimore resident, paid like $15 in tolls through Delaware, Philly and NJ. Then paid literally a $26 or some shit toll to get into Staten Island. Then paid $20 for daily parking.

    Not including gas or food I had to budget $100 just for TOLLS when I went to NYC and back. And just because it’s worth it to see that city does not mean I’m not super annoyed that they rip people off so much like that.
     
  17. Zach

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    That Dallas toll story gives me anxiety. I thought Orlando tolls were bad
     
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  18. Fucking Dustin

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    Finally paid my bill, it was $316.87
     
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  19. PeacefulOrca

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    No one would need to use cars nearly as much if we had trains that were so fast they float on air.
     
  20. Randall Mentzos

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    That is absolutely outlandish to me

    That’s like more than most people’s car insurance payment. (Less than mine though!)
     
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  21. PeacefulOrca

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    Couldn't you have just taken the path from jersey?
     
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  22. Randall Mentzos

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    Never thought of this actually hahaha damn.

    I just remembered taking an Amtrak INTO jersey was expensive.

    And cold as fuck waiting for that fucking train when it’s 20 degrees, windy, and humid. And train stations are all concrete wind tunnels basically that reflect all the cold death air directly onto you. Shivering just remembering that.
     
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  23. Max_123

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    Had to pay $15 to drive through NY for like 5 miles when we were out there last month lol

    Not even going in to any of the boroughs, just around them
     
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  24. Randall Mentzos

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    See yeah that’s dumb, tolls just to drive around your PART OF the city lol

    That’s literally just taxing the shit out of people
     
  25. Fucking Dustin

    Tell me what I missed Supporter

    It's about what mine used to be! I made the switch to USAA and saved like 1.5k per year
     
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