Opus 2015-410: On the Street: The End of Freewaydom

In California we always called them “freeways”.  Back east they are sometimes turnpikes. Now that the federal government is involved people are calling them “interstates”.

I think one reason we are moving away from calling them freeways is because the tax and spend elites are starting to put tolls on what has already been paid for by tax money.

We can’t even call them “freeways” any more in the sense of free movement without cross traffic and signals.  In California we now have signals on the transition ramps between major routes and signals at the on-ramps.  I was coming back from the airport before 6:00 AM recently and the traffic was light.  When I transitioned from the I-105 to the I-710 I was forced to come to a complete stop and wait for the signal to turn green.

The goal of the elites is to get us out of our cars and onto the buses and trains.  We are easier to control that way.  Inexpensive cars and gasoline are tools of liberty and freedom of choice.  Since liberty and freedom of choice are antithetical to the nanny state they must be taxed or coerced out of existence. 

The old anti-war folk song could be rewritten as,

“Where have all the old cars gone....”

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