Good to Go

Watched a report on the status of “Good To Go” on TV by Robert Mak a few days ago.  I’ve got my little G-T-G thing on my windshield, as demanded by WSDOT.  Looks like this thing won’t start now until late July, right about when Seattle gets its two weeks of blistering, sultry hot 78 degree summer.  Well, I’m ready, by god. 

Yep, a toll for all seasons it’s touted to be.  There’s a different charge for different times on different days – and – if your car happens to be blown off the bridge midway, you won’t be charged for the trip!  How cool is that?

Mak interviewed a State Legislator who was making some noise about maybe this toll isn’t enough.  Maybe they should toll BOTH frickin’ bridges.  Yep, you just wait.  It’ll happen.  In fact, hell, maybe they ought to just toll the beegeezus out of every route to anywhere.  We HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY. 

I’ve done a little map to help the lawmakers who can read get a jump on this idea and trump it up down in Olympia. 

Note also that we go “out” to Issaquah…”over” to Redmond…and “up” to Monroe.  Kind of a Seattle thing I guess. 

So, we’ll pay a toll everywhere we go.  The next step is for the State to tattoo a barcode onto our foreheads and we can pay tolls for, say, sidewalks, public buildings and stairways, the waterfront…..just imagine the possibilities for sorely needed State Revenue. 

A barcode that has stopped moving on the street could signal a death possibly by a mugging or being hit by a car, maybe passed out from inebriation, any number of things.  This way, aid can be directed to the toll payer in hopes of saving them so they can continue to provide revenue.  Nothing wasted.

It’s always something………