The increased toll on the Dumbarton Bridge is going to encourage more westbound drivers to take 237 instead, but I don't see any project to improve its capacity.

How about creating jobs around the periphery to vitiate the need for additional traffic?
We are like frogs in slowly boiling water.

Instead of making a regressive fee like raising bridge tolls, why not use revenue from the "Lexus" lanes (HOV lanes that charge for single drivers) that are being put up everywhere? That ceases being regressive--only the people who can afford it pay the toll.

I keep wondering where the heck the money from the general fund is being spent? We don’t have any money for road improvements but somehow there is money to fund free legal aid to illegal immigrants, free sewage dumping for RV dwellers (that are illegally parked on our streets, free food trucks to feed anybody at the park who wants a meal, etc. Whomever is in charge of our local budget needs to be making wiser (and more taxpayer friendly) decisions.

Why target specifically the bridge tolls, this does not seem fair indeed.

Why not introduce a tax on corporations in the bay area with profits over one billion to fund public transit. This seems long overdue.

I'd agree with Joe and Lenny. Regressive taxation is in general not good for the current Gilded Age we live in. And, why are bridge users being hit to support so many other modes of transportation? Bridge improvements, access road improvements, a Southern Crossing (oh my gosh - a rail version - a reestablished Dumbarton rail system serving cross-bay commuters/ relieving bridge auto commuter traffic).

so, I will just vote no on this particular tax (BTW, seems no guarantee of the project lists)

Very sad development - we will never have any decent public transportation the way the discussion is going.

Let's all keep driving in our expensive cars at pedestrian speeds...

Yes, we invent a lot of things but we should copy what works in other parts of the world where there are alternatives to automobiles and where transportation modes are disentangled. Unlike here, where numerous modes co-exist and share the same space leading to needless frictions and deaths - such as when cars get stuck on the Caltrain tracks or pedestrians get run over by cars.

How about creating more housing near the already existent jobs on the peninsula so more people can live there and not need to commute in?

I'll be voting "no" on this one. I remember how MTC wasted toll money to build a new Taj Mahal headquarters in San Francisco when the one they had in Oakland was perfectly good. Why reward this behavior with more of our hard-earned cash?

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