Posted on 10/15/2017 4:16:56 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
They could add more bike lanes or maybe some bullet train tracks. /s
HAHAHAHAHA!
Kalifornia granola munchers whine that they have to drive on a 2-lane road! HAHAHAHA!
The thing is, you can only charge westbound for now, because the competing Richmond-San Rafael bridge charges only westbound. The eastbound lanes are free, to avoid backups, so if you charged tolls eastbound, traffic would divert south to the bridge.
Route 37 also has some at-grade intersections, but it does have 3 short overwater bridges. Just toll each bridge $1.67 westbound, which would in sum equal the $5.00 toll on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. If the bridge toll is $6.00 during rush hour, make the road tolls $2.00 apiece during rush hour.
Of course, if the voters approve the referendum set by SB 595, you can raise the road tolls to $3.00 apiece, because then the bridge toll would be $9.00.
Maybe someday we could have a ballot measure to extirpate dudes like him that keep pushing these extreme measures that raise and waste multi-billions on phony "water bond" and dishonest parkland and CONservancy schemes in such a blinding (bleep) storm of bizarre baloney (I wish).
” Run the the road off a cliff somewhere.”
LMAO!
I use 37 often... avoids the tolls over bridges
“If you use it, you should pay for the costs. If you don’t use it, you shouldn’t have to pay for it.”
Howze that work with my LARGE property tax bills in Marin related to schools? No kids, not using the schools. Logical idea but not how these CA peeps operate, they’ve NEVER met a tax they won’t vote for.
Like others stated, money HAND OVER FIST coming in ref roads on bridge tolls in.area. Soon they’ll tax the tax.
Thanks for your excellent insight re tolls.
We have used rt 37: 1.5 times in 3 years.
The .5 was last Monday during the fire evac trying to go west. After about 2 hours of bumper to bumper going basically no where, I told my wife it appeared the vehicles in front of us were being forced into a U turn to head back to Vallejo.
Sure enough, without any signs or warnings before we got on the road, they had closed the road westbound at the far west Mare Island exit and forced everyone into a 180 back towards Vallejo. We returned Friday at about noon on 37. It flowed fairly well. However, the road is in terrible shape.
We haven’t had a child in a public school or university for 30+ years.
Our grand kids went to private middle and high schools and now in out of state colleges and the last one will be in one soon. Our state universities/colleges are basically anti any student from California, (another issue)!
In the meantime, we, the California grandparents, parents of the grand kids, uncles, aunts and cousins without kids in school have paid property taxes, bond fees for schools and local colleges, state income taxes and local sales taxes for decades.
Highway 37 was built on swampland. It is always busy and very dangerous. Climate change is not the cause of the problem.
Why?
Wetlands are an "in" thing. They supposedly filter water, and nobody seems to care that they are breeding grounds for disease-carrying mosquitos. Welcome back, malaria!
(Incidentally, my computer's spel checkur doesn't seem to understand the word "mosquito.")
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