New Pensacola Bay bridge could have toll attached to it.

Floridatexan wrote:It's a major corridor and it connects the two parts of Escambia County. How could they charge a toll?

Yomama wrote:

My mom told me that in the midst of the Great Depression, when they built the original bridge (the 2-lane), they charged a $1 toll!

Some conspiracy buffs would say that the decision to make a toll will be influenced by the investors of the toll bridge in Santa Rosa County. If the traffic on "Bo's Bridge" picks up because of a toll over the 3-mile bridge, it'll be "I told you so".

riceme wrote:

Yomama wrote:

My mom told me that in the midst of the Great Depression, when they built the original bridge (the 2-lane), they charged a $1 toll!

Some conspiracy buffs would say that the decision to make a toll will be influenced by the investors of the toll bridge in Santa Rosa County. If the traffic on "Bo's Bridge" picks up because of a toll over the 3-mile bridge, it'll be "I told you so".

I remember your posting that during the Great Depression a $1 toll was charged. That's freaking ludicrous. I wonder what that would be in 2012 dollars... ??

So if they end up going with the toll, which as I understand it they no longer have to rcv public approval for, you all would have the $3 (2-axle) toll on Garcon Pt Bridge (or whatever it's called), the $1 toll to get out to the beach, and whatever The Powers That Be deem fit for the bay bridge... Do I have that straight?

The Thomas A. Johnson Bridge (often called the Old Pensacola Bay Bridge) was the first bridge to span the three-miles of Pensacola Bay between Pensacola and Gulf Breeze. It was built for $2.5 million by the Pensacola Bridge Corporation and opened on June 13, 1931 — simultaneously with the original Pensacola Beach Bridge over Santa Rosa Sound and the Casino resort on Pensacola Beach.

It was a bascule bridge
and featured a double-leaf design that could be raised by electric
motor for large ships. Motorists were charged a $5 monthly toll.

The Frisco Employees' Magazine described the bridge's structure:


As the party approached Pensacola Bridge over the newly
completed approach road, they saw a tremendous structure of reinforced
concrete three miles In length, containing 293 spans ... A navigation
opening with an electrically operated drawbridge with a clearance of 80
feet horizontal and 17 feet vertical, provides an opening for
ocean-going craft at the approximate center of the bridge.

The bridge was renamed in 1948 to honor Thomas A. Johnson, who was responsible for removing the toll.

Gunz wrote:http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_pensacola-bay-bridge-could-see-new-toll-pay-construction-26292.shtml

NaNook wrote:Anyone who has ever lived up North knows about toll roads.

I still maintain a 3-5% national sales tax to reduce the national debt is the way to go. Make sure there is a sunset and no ability to tap the revenue for other purposes.

We're broke as a Nation. We can dig out or go under. The choice is ours.....

Yella wrote:

Gunz wrote:http://www.weartv.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/wear_pensacola-bay-bridge-could-see-new-toll-pay-construction-26292.shtml

Does anybody know the projected cost for the bridge?

Yomama wrote:

NaNook wrote:Anyone who has ever lived up North knows about toll roads.

I still maintain a 3-5% national sales tax to reduce the national debt is the way to go. Make sure there is a sunset and no ability to tap the revenue for other purposes.

We're broke as a Nation. We can dig out or go under. The choice is ours.....

We Southerners don't care how you do it up North.

(Sorry NaNook. I couldn't help myself.)

I like the tax idea. It makes too much sense, though. Also, the "One Percenters" won't be able to make deductions... we can't have THAT, y'know?