Originally Posted by
ZippyThePinhead
Usually when I ride BB I take the "Bayview Trail" (per Google Maps) which they want to charge access on and cut to the road in order to get to the bluffs (Castaway Park & the USMC memorial). I can do effectively the same on local roads, but this is just a "charge what the traffic will bear" kind of move, and I'll guarantee not a d@mned thing will change-- the trail surface won't be nicer, or wider, or safer, or anything-- it will just cost money, or risk being cited.
Yet more evidence of how this state is circling the bowl, in my view.
You got that right!
And the worst is yet to come. The state's elected officials and some local governments are not gonna relent in their search for more revenue. And they are very aware that certain tax increases (eg vehicle licence fees) can cost a governor or other elected official his/her job (see Gray Davis), so that leaves what I call death by a thousand cuts, revenue increase by taxes such as the Back Bay tax, that only affects local people.
The darn state is just slouching towards irrelevance, as far as I am concerned.