Apparently, a couple of weeks ago, New Hampshire governor Craig Benson got stuck in a little traffic jam, trying to go through the Hampton tolls on his way south on Route 95. If you've ever gone between Maine and Massachusetts, you know what I'm talking about - miles and miles of backups to pay a buck for the privilege of driving through 17 miles of New Hampshire. It seems this little waiting in line thing put him in such a tizzy that he's pushed a change through state legislature that will eliminate the southbound toll...and double the northbound toll. His quote, verbatim, from the Nashua Telegraph article:
Benson said tourists come to New Hampshire to get away from traffic snarls. "Yet, here's a welcome mat to New Hampshire - a traffic backup as significant as any metropolitan area," said Benson.
Now, let's think about this for a second...considering there is one (1) state of the contiguous 48 to the north and east of New Hampshire, and forty-six (46) of the contiguous 48 to the south and west of New Hampshire, where do you think most of these people are coming from? So why on this great verdant spheroid upon we live would you want to facilitate southbound passage, when everyone will be coming FROM THE SOUTH? Wouldn't you want to make it easy to get in and remove the northbound toll? Does this not make sense to anyone else?
ezpass.
nuff said.