[Wneighbor]

So, does the old bridge stay so you can use that option? Or will you *have* to use the new bridge? That don't even make no sense. Ya'll need to get some of us redneck engineers up there. Even the aggies down here can do better than that!

*duckin' msdrby's punch* hehehe

Lemme tell ya though, you just ain't lived till you've had to stop a Harley at a toll booth in the pouring rain, stand up, hold the bike with your legs and try to fish quarters outta your (soaked) pocket that's covered with 2 layers of leather (soaked leather) at 1 AM. Frikkin' nuts!! Just slap nuts.

[JenB]

I have this thing called EZPass. It's a device that sits on my windshield and I go through the toll booth without stopping. The charge goes directly to my credit card.

It makes things a lot easier, since I don't have power windows and trying to roll up the window and shift into second is really tough...

[msdrby]

Even the aggies down here can do better than that!

Heck, even the Army Corps of Engineers can do better than that!

[Professional Engineer]

My ex-wife used to just drive through the troll boothes. Not pay, not slow down. Thankfully she never got caught, or I'd still be paying the bloody fine.

[Ramius]

So, does the old bridge stay so you can use that option? Or will you *have* to use the new bridge? That don't even make no sense.

After they finish the new bridge, then both of them will be made into three-lanes and each will be one-way. But one of the three lanes will be buses only. So it'll end up being two lanes of traffic either way.

Now... the toll will only be charged one way. So that $6 is only a round-trip cost (lucky me!!). Seems that state law prohibits them from putting a toll BACK on the old bridge, since it was already bought and paid for with tolls thirty years ago, when the tolls were taken OFF. But they get around that by making them now both one-way bridges and only charging a toll on the NEW bridge. Sick, ain't it?