21-year-old Marcos Parker was charged with misdemeanor Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument after he was stopped for speeding, and the cop realized this fake plate was a vinyl transfer on the metal.
It was shortly after noon Friday the 13th.
however, some of the New York license plates made (by prison in Auburn) over the past decade or so are falling apart/delaminating.
Now that EZ pass is abandoning those old sensors and just reading your plate, everyone must have a legible number on their car
"Due to a nationwide aluminum shortage, WYDOT has had to temporarily suspend all prestige plate and novelty plate orders," the Department of Transportation wrote via a social media post. "Standard plates remain available through your local county treasurer's office."
How there is no shortage to make regular plates, which contain exactly the same amount of aluminum, I don't know.
I'm not aware of why some New England states have been historically toll road happy, because I've lived in several other states in the USA that don't have them.
So, how is it possible that California for example, or Texas, have 10s of thousands of public roads, and few if any toll roads, but, New Jersey and New York are "turnpike" and "tollroad" prone?
Well, I guess it must be pretty expensive to make tunnels to and from Manhattan, but, haven't those now been in place for about 70 or 80 years? Haven't the tolls and fees paid for them yet?
Here in San Diego there was a govt scam from state Department of Transportation officials and Caltrans to keep people paying the toll on the Coronado Bridge, from San Diego to the island in the bay, until finally someone caught on that the damn thing had been paid for, and the govt was simply going to keep taking in the thousands of dollars a day until they were nailed in court for fraud. The matter had to be brought before a judge, because the govt was too happy to get millions of dollars for their govt spending budgets, without having to prove a reason, or authorized use, for the money. Hint, potholes did not get fixed
The Coronado Bridge’s $50-million construction bill was paid off 17 years ahead of schedule because the toll was too high, AND the amount of traffic had been underestimated. More than $8 million was collected in tolls each year from the 50,000 cars that cross the bridge daily.
The Coronado Bridge was a up front deal that government gave its word to the voters if they voted for the bonds to build the Coronado Bridge, the toll would stop the day the bonds were paid off. It took 15 years after the bonds were paid off to get the toll to stop.
When the bridge opened in 1969, the toll was 60 cents each way. Then for years, it became $1for inbound traffic only, and carpoolers were free. Then in 2002, all fares were dropped, 16 years after the bridge bond was paid off in 1986
The Golden Gate Bridge is completely different, because there was no such deal in place there.
Turnpikes, on the other hand, used their "near monopoly position" to boost rates on drivers so much that revenue increased 4.3 percent even though traffic plunged 6.4 percent. The New Jersey Turnpike, for example, raised driving costs by fifty percent.
interesting but grim, sidenote:
The Coronado Bridge is frequently used as a suicide bridge; as of July 2017, at least 407 suicide deaths by bridge jumpers have occurred on the Coronado, trailing only the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco as the bridge most-often used for suicide in the United States.
Solar-powered phones were once installed on the Skyway to offer direct help for those contemplating suicide, but have since been removed. Signs have been placed on the bridge urging potential suicides to call a hotline. However, call boxes are not provided.
In 1972, three years after the bridge was opened to traffic, the first "suicide" was recorded. It was subsequently reclassified as a murder after an investigation determined that Jewell P. Hutchings, 52, of Cerritos had been forced to jump at gunpoint. Her husband, James Albert Hutchings, was subsequently charged with murder and pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.
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