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Auggie

(31,172 posts)
Tue Feb 25, 2014, 12:19 PM Feb 2014

$8 Golden Gate Bridge Toll in the news again

Tuesday, February 25, 2014 / sfgate.com

Golden Gate Bridge tolls should climb $2 - a buck in April and another dollar spread over the next four years. That's the recommendation made Monday by bridge officials.

The increases - to as much as $8 by 2018 - would again make the cost of crossing the landmark span the priciest in the Bay Area.

The proposed hike would be the first on the famous span in more than five years and would raise an estimated $123 million over the next five years. But it's sure to raise the hackles of commuters as well.

"At a certain point, it just gets to be too much of a burden," said Mig Hofmann, who commutes every day from Corte Madera to San Francisco State University, where she works as an information security officer.

MORE: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Golden-Gate-Bridge-s-proposed-toll-8-by-2018-5262681.php

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