Yet another toll hike possible, to $6, on Golden Gate

[davidinalameda]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/02/09/state/tollhike.DTL

I don't like paying the $3 on the Bay Bridge

[EVDebs]

1. Infrastructure (O & M costs) neglected in order to pay day to day costs

of government in the Bay Area ? You think that's bad, wait till you see what happens with the Hetch Hetchy system costs get added into the mix.

See "Hetch Hetchy plan all clogged up"
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/24/EDGT0ARQM11.DTL
'How much more than the $3.6 billion San Francisco and Peninsula-city residents agreed to borrow to pay for the rebuilding will it cost?'

"Caltrans Under Fire For Bay Bridge Retrofit Costs"
http://www.nbc11.com/news/4135978/detail.html
'The price of the project has doubled to more than $5 billion.'

So Bay Area residents are looking at around $9 billion for Hetch Hetchy and the Bay Bridge retrofits alone.

This is supposed to have been fixed with Ahnold's 'clout' with Bush getting us Blue State money from the head of the Reds. Apparently Arnie has little clout at all. In any event, with most federal funding nowadays, each community is responsible for its own repayment on bonds, the preferred funding mechanism (which Wall Street and the federal privatizers love, since the rich get richer and everyone else gets the bill !).