Nice comment! Made me laugh. I had to go check the original article and, sure enough, that's the way it is written!
PS. I found a picture of the $300 boat. Unfortunately, it's hard to squeeze the dock into the $300 budget.
Posted on 10/15/2017 8:12:43 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
If you live in the Bay Area, you’ll be hearing a lot about Senate Bill 595 over the next year or so. If you’re a regular user of any of the region’s seven state-owned toll bridges — that’s all of them, except the Golden Gate Bridge — you’ll want to pay close attention.
SB 595, which won final passage Thursday and now awaits Gov. Jerry Brown’s signature, provides for a vote in the nine Bay Area counties next year to raise bridge tolls by as much as $3. If the Bay Area Toll Authority, the agency that oversees the bridges, seeks that maximum $3 increase, tolls for a single crossing would be as high as $9 — the potential rush-hour tab for a trip across the Bay Bridge. (If you’re hyperventilating, just remember we’re still not in Verrazano-Narrows Bridge territory; the cash toll on the span between Brooklyn and Staten Island rose to $17 earlier this year.)
The higher tolls would pay for nearly three dozen transit and highway projects totaling $4.45 billion over the next 25 years. The complete list is at the end of this post, but highlights include:
BART would get $500 million to help pay for an expanded fleet of new-generation rail cars.
BART would get $50 million for preliminary design and engineering work on a second transbay crossing.
The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority would get $375 million, part of what it needs to build a planned BART extension to downtown San Jose.
Some $325 million would go to a long-dreamed-of Caltrain extension from San Francisco’s far-South of Market to downtown.
The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities.
(Excerpt) Read more at ww2.kqed.org ...
>>>The Bay Area’s Water Emergency Transportation Authority would get $300 to pay for new boats and dock facilities<<<
Wow, those guys work cheap.
This money will be pissed away on illegals, green spaces, and bike paths.
Good news, San Francisco Bay is filling in with silt and will eventually be dry land, so they can put roads anywhere they want. The bad news, its not filling in fast enough.
Yeah, proofreaders and editors are passe nowadays.
Promised to be free years ago already
The RAT on this old adage: you can never be too rich, too thin, or ever tax enough. FU Moonbeam and all your partners in crime with your commie schemes. FU.
who paid to build these bridges?
Most big bridges were supposed to be paid off years ago. The toll system is a total scam.
That's ALMOST enough to pay for the bicycle paths around the entire Bay Area. Almost.
Nice comment! Made me laugh. I had to go check the original article and, sure enough, that's the way it is written!
PS. I found a picture of the $300 boat. Unfortunately, it's hard to squeeze the dock into the $300 budget.
Privatize all interstates and their bridges
let the free market do its magic. quality will skyrocket and costs plummet
Brekke is a decent jouranlist.
What REALLY sucks about this bill is that the most of the users of the bridges whose tolls will be going up live east of San Francisco (Oakland and East Bay mainly). However, the added revenue from these increased tolls will be distributed throughout the Bay Area.
So, for the 60% of the local population who live in SF or on the Peninsula and don’t need to go over a bridge to get to and from San Francisco, they will be paying no added fees generated by this bill. However, they are still getting benefit from the added revenue extracted from those of us who live east of SF and have to take a bridge (take your pick) to get into and out of San Francisco.
Like I needed yet another reason to visit SF as little as possible? Thank goodness I work near where I live and can chuckle at the traffic reports every morning!
A 4 billion dollar ‘road diet’?
Can California become any more stupid?
On a positive note the house I bought in 1990 is going to pay for a ‘compound’ in eastern Oregon.
Some of the diamond lanes are now fast-track lanes, collecting electronic tolls for the privilege of using the fast lane.
Yup. They were paid off many years ago. The politicians promised that the tolls were temporary and would go away. Then they made them permanent. The tolls just from the SF/Oakland Bay Bridge funded building of the other Bay bridges, with the exception of the GG Bridge. All the bridges were paid for. The politicians then diverted money to pet projects, having nothing to do with bridge maintenance. Now it's diverted to pet projects on roads around the Bay and to bus systems. The GG Bridge diverted money to fancy ferries for well-to-do patrons. As you say, the toll system is a scam.
Used to be bridge tolls paid for...bridges.
It wouldn’t be that hard to charge the eastbounders. Instead of $9.00 for westbounders (northboound on I-680 and at Carquinez Bridge on I-80), just use AET to impose $4.50 each way and no more traffic jams at the booths.
Rich San Franciscoids can certainly afford $4.50 eastbound over SF-Oakland or Dumb-Barton, etc.
Marin County gets nothing.
In 1968 or so they raised the toll to 50 cents, just till the Golden Gate Bridge was paid off, they said. Then when it was paid off they needed the money for busses... and so it went.
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