This past week, we tried to go west on 37 early Monday Morning to evacuate from the fire and did come back on it Friday. The road is terrible shape.
Build a toll road and charge the same tolls as the bridges.
The liberals, who live in Vallejo/Fairfield drive west in the morning and back home in the evening.
The liberals, who live in Marvelous Marin County drive east in the morning and west in the evening.
Let them pay the tolls for building, upkeep and general maintenance.
Time to issue fair use costs. If you use it, you should pay for the costs. If you don’t use it, you shouldn’t have to pay for it.
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.
“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.