Bridge Tolls

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Why should/would "Cape Residents" be exempt??? Are they not Mass. residents??? Can't wait to hear the reasoning...if you dare!

Because the people proposing this lunacy are the Barnstable County Commission, and the Cape Cod Commission. Their theory is that the 240,000 year round residents of Barnstable County pay for the upkeep of the roads and cause little of the wear on them--or something like that.

The Corps of Engineers will never allow it, IMO.

And if they do--I hope these bozos remember that part of Barnstable County is on the other side of the bridges.

And if not---my car is registered in "Bourne", not Buzzards Bay

[BigFish]

I thought we all pay for the upkeep of the roads?? Excise tax and such???! People act as if "over the bridge" is some far away land that is just too special to be taxed like the folks who live on the "mainland side"........I wonder how many even know the canal was man made???

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by BigFish

I thought we all pay for the upkeep of the roads?? Excise tax and such???! People act as if "over the bridge" is some far away land that is just too special to be taxed like the folks who live on the "mainland side"........I wonder how many even know the canal was man made???

I would say that a good 40% of the people who live on the other side don't know that, and maybe 80% don't realize that "Cape Cod" in the 19th century was considered by many to be anything inside the hook--up to Plymouth and beyond.

There is no such legal entity under the General Laws as "Cape Cod". The legal entity in question is the County of Barnstable.

[saltfly]

they're trying to get everyone fired up about this and then run something else in the" Back Door".