Sunday, November 18, 2007

New York State Thruway Authority the "White Elephant"

These terms definetly apply to the New York State Thruway!

White Elephant
(n.)
...expensive possession that is a financial burden to maintain.


White Elephant
(n.)
An endeavor or venture that proves to be a conspicuous failure.

Okay! Originally the New York State Thruway was suppossed to be free from tolls by now. (But that didn't happen.) So now the New York State Thruway Authority wants to raise the price of "tolls" on the thruway because not enough people are using the thruway anymore.

"Uh? Excuse me?" If they raise the tolls then alot more people will stop taking the thruway. Then what? You got a alot of thruway employees doing nothing just collecting their paychecks.

The thruway authority just doesn't seem to get it? You can't increase the tolls and expect people to use the thruway! Any smart business owner would get rid of anything that is cutting into his/her bottom line.
"When a department store wants to attract customers to increase its revenue, then it cuts prices and has a sale! It doesn't INCREASE THE PRICE OF WHAT IT IS SELLING!"
The time of charging tolls for using the thruway has passed, with the price of gas increasing, then increasing the tolls, the thruway is just getting to expensive to travel on anymore.

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