Living on the Eastern Shore of Virginia (8 miles from the MD line,) I have 2 sources for daily news - Salisbury or Virginia Beach/Norfolk/Hampton Roads - so I do both.
I’ve been following this in the Salisbury Daily Times in regard to the Bay Bridge toll increase and as much as I hate to say it -— it is not an unreasonable increase. It hasn’t been raised in decades.
So they haven’t raised it in decades. How about paying off the bridge and removing the tolls????? Where does all that money go...to pay for the inflated state worker pensions and for welfare in Baltimore???? A few years ago MD put a toll booth on the Delaware state line on I95...just out of the blue and charges several dollars to pass through. Stop spending, you creeps!
I don’t think that it’s necessarily unreasonable either, at least for cars. They really should reduce the difference between auto and truck tolls, however. Currently, truck tolls are six times the rate of car tolls. They should reduce the gap as they increase the tolls, until the truck/car toll ratio is more like 4/1, or even 3/1.
Trucks already had their tolls raised in 2009, that’s why I have this sentiment.
Tolls on the San Francisco Bay Area bridges are similar amounts. Most car tolls are $5.
http://bata.mtc.ca.gov/tolls/index.htm