Golden Gate Bridge directors approved a $1 toll increase on Friday. The toll hike goes into effect September 1st and will raise the cost of crossing the bridge to $5 for FasTrak users and $6 for cash payers. The toll is expected to raise an additional $1.5 million a month, enough to help close a $90 million budget gap forecast for the next five years. In the coming months, bridge directors will also set the rates for a congestion-based toll that will rise and fall with traffic.
Why don't they just charge tourists and cash payers twice as much? Why penalize locals and commuters? I guess the good news is that it will encourage more people to bike to work. The problem is that the weak dollar has led to a stampede of tourists on the pedestrian side of the bridge. As a result, crossing the bridge on a bike these days takes longer and is more dangerous due to the hoards of tourists on foot and bike.
If only the bike side of the bridge was open all day, every day.
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as long as they don't institute a bike and/or ped toll.
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