I just crossed the Benicia Bridge over the Carquinez Straits last night for the first time this year. The bridge toll increased from $3.00 to $4.00 per vehicle since my last trip across the span. I used to commute over that bridge. For commuters, $1.00 extra each day, times about 20 work days a month is an additional $20 a month...times 12 months, and that's an additional $240 a year, just in increased bridge tolls.
Arnold promised "no tax increases," but apparently increasing fees all over the place, and borrowing billions of dollars that we're going to have to pay off (probably once he's out of office) certainly straps Californians with a huge burden in the future.
Beware of the even greater tolls coming in the future. Yesterday, the Administration put out a
press release announcing how the big-bang-bond was just a down payment, and now they'll use those billions in borrowed money to leverage the state into attracting billions in private capital for more Public-Private Partnerships (among other things, this includes toll roads, toll bridges, etc).
These Public-Private Partnerships are NOT a good thing. Soon, all of those tolls will be controlled by foreign controlled entities and we will be at their mercy everywhere we travel. The linked article is well worth the read (the formatting in the original PDF version is much more reader friendly.)