• Via Treehugger, the latest cycling spring fashion is now available. Now it’s just a matter of getting on your bike so you can look good in the rest of your clothes. (Treehugger)
• U.S. auto safety regulators are asking NASA scientists for help in analyzing Toyota electronic throttles, to see if they are in fact the culprits behind the unintended acceleration problem. (Reuters)
• In literary news, author Christian Wolmar looks at 200 years of (often bloody) rail progress in Blood, Iron, and Gold: How the Railroads Transformed the World. (Washington Post)
• In a list of the world’s top five airports, Asia almost gets a clean sweep. The only non-Asian airport given a shout is Munich’s, at number four. (Huffington Post)
• In what will surely be deeply unpopular in much of Pennsylvania, plans to toll Interstate 80 might soon get the go-ahead. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
• G3 networks are expanding in China, meaning a possible emergence of the Chinese equivalent of Luke Wilson. (mobileburn)
• Tajikistan pins its hopes on dam project to lead it out of the crippling poverty that affects more than half of the country’s population. (Yahoo!)
• A look at the the Moscow underground from the Soviet-era to today. (Euronews)[SButtonZ button="digg"]
Certainly, “Most” of PA will not be upset by this. Most of us already have to use 60, 66, and 76 to get around which are all tolled. We will be excited about having enough money to fix our decaying roads and bridges again. Why, even the way that the tolling is being implemented is not onerous for locals along the northern route. The plan, at least as it was presented last year, allows you to go through one of the nine stations without paying toll, if you have EZPass. This would encompass the commutes of most people living on the route.
I have this suspicion that as time goes on, states will add tolls to more and more roads. Mainly because nobody in power wants to raise taxes, and the roads are going to fall into disrepair.
People may hate this, but at the moment it seems to be the path of least resistance going forward.