Plan approved for Louisiana I-10 bridge includes a hefty toll for truckers

I-12 needs to be extended around Baton Rouge. No matter what time I leave Houston I always wind up stuck in a jam at that bridge in Baton Rouge.

 

Actually only 6 miles more, or 1 gallon of fuel. $3.99(fuel) vs $8.25(toll).

 

Hefty toll bill? It's 8 dollars and change with a toll tag and 12 and change without. Thats not expensive at all. Now if you you're talking about running the Pennsylvania Turnpike, or the combination of the Thruway in New York and the Massachusetts Turnpike, your spending aerious money then. I get it, but the coat of this toll is chump change compared to the northeast. Louisiana has incredibly beat up infrastructure. It's long overdue.

 

Give it a couple years. Thing about politicians and bureaucrats is they always find something else they need more money for and they will be tapping into it sooner than later and saying they need to raise more and more by raising that cost and then adding tolls in other places. Do you really think all those others you mentioned started out at rediculous costs ?

 

Not at all, but of all the toll roads I've ran over the years, PA has raised their prices at a faster rate than any other place. I hope it don't happen, but like you said, get the right person in power and boom..more increases.

 

2 billion for a bridge?

 

The interest rates nowadays…

 

You need not tell me about PA, I’m from PA and have witnessed it.

 

Lol when then excuse me sir. Didn't know you were from PA.