Why do we have to pay a toll on "freeways"?
491443
Primarily because people don't use the right names for things.  Because some highways did not have a toll, they were called freeways to distinguish them from tollways.  Then people got lazy and started calling all highways freeways.  It's like people calling all carbonated beverages Cokes or all tissues Kleenex.
496200
DSL is similar to dial-up and sometimes when there is to many people on (peak times usually evenings) the servers can't support the load and fail. Most ISPs will probably make you still pay for it but some may work a deal with you if you talk to them.\n\nGetting rude with them isn't necessary!
270788
The same reason why they buy over-sized pick up trucks that get 10 miles to the gallon and make them pay $350/month car payments.. SMALL PENISES !!
1141460
cuz they need your offerings (money)  to pay the light bill
849362
It's way too funny.... Since you put it into perspective, I'm wondering why, since we technically pay for the roads, why are the roads around here full of potholes??? If I'm paying for them, I think they should be repaired as needed.......
53451
hmmmmm...really? I live in Oklahoma and I-35 runs through my city. About a year ago I was on the interstate and I got a speeding ticket from a city police officer, not a highway patrol. I went to the city hall to pay my ticket.\nhmmmmm, interesting!
20873
It costs money to pave roads.  It costs money to hire police.  It costs money to provide social security and medicare benefits.  \n\nYou're not paying to go to work.  You're paying to LIVE here.  The government just has an income based tax, it's actually more fare than a consumption-based tax.  A consumption based tax hits the lower classes harder because they tend to spend everything they make where the wealthy do not.
169723
I 94 is an interstate and it takes you where you want to go but then again may take you where you don't want to go. lol
461664
Why do we call the places we drive parkways and the places we park driveways?
513315
Yup! Our freeways out herre in L.A. were wide open! Also, there was no wait in our emergency rooms, (which are normally full of them!).
243339
Most employers expect to pay you for the time you are at the job performing the work only.\n\nThe only exception I have seen to this is service technicians, normally a contract explicitly states that the time out enroute to the customer service site is billable.  This is because the service technician must provide transportation of tools and service parts to different locations each time.\n\nAgain, service contracts have all this spelled out, the customer signs the contract and is on notice that this is how it would be billed.\n\nYou cannot expect a customer to pay for your travel time unless it is agreed to as a condition for providing your services.  In any case, this needs to be agreed to in a signed, written contract.
426504
It's not necessarily a matter of corruption.  California also has a huge population and a large debt.  In the past few years we have suffered many cutbacks in all areas of government.  Cracking down harder on traffic violations has the joint effect of helping to alleviate the fiscal problems as well as getting people to be more careful when they drive.
308155
forgot the true answer to that. but heres one. Why do people drive in a parkway and park in a driveway
99309
Unfortunately the actions of a few effect us all.  For instance the pre pay at a gas station.  I asked one attendant why and she told me bacause of the drive offs.  That's just one example.
108986
We pay for it because it's an optional service. If you don't want to pay don't have it. Oh, and stop whining.
747206
good question.  \n\nKind of like why do we park in the drive way but drive on the parkway?
456045
I'll venture to guess that a highway can be most any road, preferably a main road, that connects towns and cities together. A freeway and an expressway would be very similar to each other, but better than a highway in that there would be no traffic lights, the only way to get on and off would be through interchanges, and the speed limit would be similar to Interstate speeds. Of course, a freeway suggests that there would be no tolls, while an expressway might have tolls. Then there is California...which has it's own "rules" about freeways and expressways. What a mess, huh?