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Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

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Maineiak

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Help! New Hampshire needs branding! This article is just too good to pass up. Post your ideas here:

Mine thus far are:
  • A picture of the Hampton Toll with the slogan "Stealing money from Maine tourists since 19XX..."
  • A picture of an empty UNH trophy case...
  • How about they use the Old Man of the Mountain....oh wait, haha...nevermind! (It collapsed in 2003 for those that don't know)
  • "We sell cheap liquor..."
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Take a page from Delaware...


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Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Maineiak said:
Help! New Hampshire needs branding! This article is just too good to pass up. Post your ideas here:

Mine thus far are:
  • A picture of the Hampton Toll with the slogan "Stealing money from Maine tourists since 19XX..."
  • A picture of an empty UNH trophy case...
  • How about they use the Old Man of the Mountain....oh wait, haha...nevermind! (It collapsed in 2003 for those that don't know)
  • "We sell cheap liquor..."
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"Cheap Booze and Fireworks now...Hookers and Weed soon to come". :D

"New Englands Answer to Mississippi"

"Massachusetts' Parasite"


Right on about the toll booths. :)
 
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Isn't the Hampton Toll on the far side of Portsmouth? I'm pretty sure there are at least a couple of places to get off 95 before you hit the Toll (same with coming up from Mass - I drove from Durham to Revere a few times this past winter, only went through the toll booth once). It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...
 
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Just spent a week visiting every new england state...for NH

"Compared to Vermont, we're right wing"

"Just like Maine, but with more teeth per capita"

"More likely to see a moose than a hot girl"

"Our syrup is third best among the northern NE states"

"Fewer black flies, by a mile"
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

thecomicbookguy said:
Isn't the Hampton Toll on the far side of Portsmouth? I'm pretty sure there are at least a couple of places to get off 95 before you hit the Toll (same with coming up from Mass - I drove from Durham to Revere a few times this past winter, only went through the toll booth once). It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...
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It's the blatant overcharging more than the mere presence of a toll. If NH used the same rates on I-95 that they use on their "own" turnpikes (e.g., Concord) it would be $0.70. What's it up to now, $3.00 each way?
 
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thecomicbookguy said:
It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...
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The cost per mile isn't even close in the two states (I-95 corridor):

New Hampshire = $2.00 one way, 16.2 miles = $0.12 per mile

Maine = $5.00 one way, exit 7 to 113 (106 miles) = $0.05 per mile

Both using information/toll calculators from each states respective DOT websites.
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Maineiak said:
The cost per mile isn't even close in the two states (I-95 corridor):

New Hampshire = $2.00 one way, 16.2 miles = $0.12 per mile

Maine = $5.00 one way, exit 7 to 113 (106 miles) = $0.05 per mile

Both using information/toll calculators from each states respective DOT websites.
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The key to the argument is the comparison between I-95 and the two turnpikes that New Hampshirites actually use. ;)
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

amherstblackbear said:
The key to the argument is the comparison between I-95 and the two turnpikes that New Hampshirites actually use. ;)
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Exactly, each state is going to have it's own rates for tolls. I don't think Massachusetts charges the same rates on each toll road/bridge/tunnel it operates.

As far as the toll booth in Portsmouth, isn't aimed at Massachusetts residents who travel to Maine more than Mainers?
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Maineiak said:
That was my original point.
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Then maybe you shouldn't have used the phrase "Maine Tourists", which makes people think of tourists from Maine, not tourists going to Maine.

I stand by my point. There are several ways around the one tollbooth. I have no idea what the toll is, as I circumvent it.
 
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That toll is BS. Maine and Mass. should look into ways to build a bridge out to sea that circumvents that stupid state.
 
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legal_hit said:
Exactly, each state is going to have it's own rates for tolls. I don't think Massachusetts charges the same rates on each toll road/bridge/tunnel it operates.

As far as the toll booth in Portsmouth, isn't aimed at Massachusetts residents who travel to Maine more than Mainers?
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But doesn't Mass charge for roads & bridges it built itself (Turnpike, Tobin Bridge, etc)? I don't believe New Hampshire ponied up the money to build I-95, yet they collect the tolls from it which I find it be a bit odd.

Then again this is a place that worships a pile of rocks at the bottom of a ravine that used to sorta look like an old man's face if you were loaded, so I guess its okay. :D ;)
 
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UNH Athletics: Competing for mediocrity since since 1866.

New Hampshire: Trying to steal Maine's Navy base since 1820.
 
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Rover said:
But doesn't Mass charge for roads & bridges it built itself (Turnpike, Tobin Bridge, etc)? I don't believe New Hampshire ponied up the money to build I-95, yet they collect the tolls from it which I find it be a bit odd.

Then again this is a place that worships a pile of rocks at the bottom of a ravine that used to sorta look like an old man's face if you were loaded, so I guess its okay. :D ;)
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I also believe that NH does not pay for the downeaster Amtrak, as Mass and Maine are the only states that do. That could have changed though.
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Rover said:
But doesn't Mass charge for roads & bridges it built itself (Turnpike, Tobin Bridge, etc)? I don't believe New Hampshire ponied up the money to build I-95, yet they collect the tolls from it which I find it be a bit odd.
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I don't know about that. The Pike is an Interstate so there was probably some federal funding there. Plus I thought the states had to kick in some of the money for the Interstates in their state. I don't know what the deal is with I-95, but I know that the funds from the other two toll booths in NH go to directly to pay for road work on those two roads. (one of which is a state highway, it is not an interstate.)

As far as the I-95 toll is concerned, in some ways I actually wish they would get rid of it. It makes it a PITA to get to the seacoast from Boston in the summer, even if you drive around it.
 
Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

AMC said:
That toll is BS. Maine and Mass. should look into ways to build a bridge out to sea that circumvents that stupid state.
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Drive once or twice from Maine to Rhode Island. I'd gladly pay NH a $10 toll for a road through their state and a bridge that completely avoids the clusterbleep south of them.
 
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