{"id":10123,"date":"2015-07-11T17:31:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2015-07-11T17:31:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T17:31:18","slug":"rant-but-no-rave-about-state-highway-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=10123","title":{"rendered":"Rant, but no rave, about state highway system"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The following is a “rant” posted by a friend of mine on a social media outlet.<\/p>\n

It goes like this:<\/p>\n

Forgive me, but I need to rant for a minute. After driving through almost every state towing a camper over the last eight years, I can say without a doubt that the state of Oklahoma has the worst highway maintenance in the country. … Oklahoma has the audacity to charge tolls on many of these terrible roads and makes you stop and actually pay for these tolls rather than just taking a picture of your license and billing you later. Come on, Oklahoma, you can do better! <\/em>
\n Rant over. Thank you for your time and attention.<\/em><\/p>\n

I want to single out a particular point that deserves an endorsement from yours truly.<\/p>\n

It’s the point about having to “stop and actually pay for these tolls rather than just taking a picture of your license and billing you later.”<\/p>\n

My wife and I ventured to Oklahoma City a few months for an evening concert and to spend the night before returning home. The concert venue was along a toll road near Edmond. We’ve been spoiled by the Texas toll roads we use when\u00a0we travel to\u00a0the Dallas area to visit\u00a0our granddaughter … and<\/em> her parents.<\/p>\n

We just zip\u00a0past the cameras posted over the President George Bush Turnpike. It snaps a picture of the license plate of our vehicle and about two weeks later, we get a bill for using the highway. We send the North Texas Transit Authority a\u00a0check. No fuss at all.<\/p>\n

In Oklahoma City, we had to scramble for change when we saw signage warning us of a toll booth ahead. Some of the booths were manned, others were not, meaning we occasionally needed exact change<\/em> to be let through to the next toll both.<\/p>\n

Ugghh!<\/p>\n

The sooner<\/em> we got out of Oklahoma — pun intended, by the way — the better.<\/p>\n\n

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