Officials Approve Raising Bridge Tolls To $4

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djsincere510

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Officials Approve Raising Bridge Tolls To $4

POSTED: 3:41 pm PST January 25, 2006
UPDATED: 3:54 pm PST January 25, 2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- Motorists will have to dig a little deeper next year as the toll for seven state-owned Bay Area bridges will increase by $1 on Jan. 1, 2007.

The 19-member Bay Area Toll Authority unanimously approved the increase at its meeting Wednesday morning, according to agency public information officer Joe Curley.

Assembly Bill 144, enacted into law in July 2005, authorized the agency to increase the rates in order to fund toll bridge seismic retrofit projects in the Bay Area. The total estimated cost of the retrofit program, which includes the Bay Bridge east span replacement project, is over $8 billion.

The agency also approved a one-month toll discount of $1 for January 2007 for two-axle vehicles using FasTrak, Curley said. Expanding the discount to all FasTrak-enabled vehicles will be research by agency staff and considered at a later time.

The $1 increase will affect the Bay Bridge and the Antioch, Benicia-Martinez, Carquinez, Richmond-San Rafael, San Mateo-Hayward and Dumbarton bridges.
 
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djsincere510

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Lemon420 said:
Isn't the GGB $5 to cross?

How much is the Richmond Bridge?
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yea the golden gate is $5 and all the other bay area bridges are currently $3 right now..

but yea this might not be news to alotta you..BUT I PERSONALLY use bridges around here several times a week...so it affects me personally...

it seems like only yesterday when toll was $1..
 
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Thank god for Frast Track. I been a fast track member since it first came out. When ever i forget my fast track, or goin to the bay with a friend, I just ask for a receipt and i get credited back.....
 
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PsyDaL said:
Thank god for Frast Track. I been a fast track member since it first came out. When ever i forget my fast track, or goin to the bay with a friend, I just ask for a receipt and i get credited back.....
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Man I've been wanting to get FastTrak for the longest...but its too damn confusing the way they do the billing...

Is it the AVERAGE amount of times you pass the bridge..? Then they just deduct that same amount every month...? I'm confused...

But I need to sign up cause more and more of the lanes are becoming FT..

Does it actually save you time tho...?
 
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You gotta get a blow up doll for the passenger seat. Carpool mayn.


I miss the ocean but I am glad to live in a land locked area. No toll fees. We dont even have a carpool lane on the freeway. lol


We have a street called grant rd that has a suicide lane. It is the middle turning lane. From 4 to 6 it goes one direction and from 6 am to 8 am it goes the other. Total suicide I tell yah. Youll be hallin ass down the suicide lane and some dumb ass from out of town will be coming head on trying to turn. Suicide lane is the best name for it.
 
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azryda420 said:
You gotta get a blow up doll for the passenger seat. Carpool mayn.


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HA !! A couple years ago I was driving in the carpool lane and I put my jacket on the passenger seat and put the hood over the headrest part of the seat...thought I was a genius until a MOTORCYCLE CHP officer drove in between lanes and looked inside the car...hella funny...he did a double take...where he looked once...looked away...then looked back cause he just realized what he saw.


$ 271 dollar ticket...
 
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azryda420 said:
You gotta get a blow up doll for the passenger seat. Carpool mayn.


I miss the ocean but I am glad to live in a land locked area. No toll fees. We dont even have a carpool lane on the freeway. lol


We have a street called grant rd that has a suicide lane. It is the middle turning lane. From 4 to 6 it goes one direction and from 6 am to 8 am it goes the other. Total suicide I tell yah. Youll be hallin ass down the suicide lane and some dumb ass from out of town will be coming head on trying to turn. Suicide lane is the best name for it.
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didn't they get rid of that? i heard on the news they said it was too dangerous and got rid of it.

i remember when i lived up in tha yay, shit was cheap to get across tha golden gate...now that i live outside of tucson, i ain't gotta deal wit them prices...tucsons still garbage tho =/
 
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Por la Fuerza said:
Stop bitching. GW in NY is fucking $6.00. Plus the Brooklyn Bridge, plus parking.
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Aint no one here lives in NY whats your point? Besides everyone in NY takes the subway. California is known to have high amount of vehicles. Thats why we all have a car.
 
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