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"It’s a mystery: The Bay Bridge experienced a drop in carpoolers even before a new $2.50 toll was implemented, a situation which MTC spokesman John Goodwin characterizes as “somewhat mysterious.”
It looks like it may be more than just new tolls contributing to the decline of Bay Area carpoolers.
The number of multiperson vehicles crossing the Bay Bridge dropped almost 8 percent between the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years, a decrease that was more than twice as much as overall drop in bridge traffic."
More evidence that economic illiterates are running government, especially in the Bay Area.
"For years, carpoolers traveled for free on the region’s eight spans, but on July 1, the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge (among others) imposed tolls specifically aimed at multiperson vehicles. On the Golden Gate Bridge, the toll is $3, and the Bay Bridge, the toll is $2.50.
Most members of the region’s casual carpooling community said the new tolls have not caused a massive shakeup in the system (although ridership data suggest otherwise)."
Government is unable to even read the raw data--or refuses to admit the problem.
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"It’s a mystery: The Bay Bridge experienced a drop in carpoolers even before a new $2.50 toll was implemented, a situation which MTC spokesman John Goodwin characterizes as “somewhat mysterious.”
It looks like it may be more than just new tolls contributing to the decline of Bay Area carpoolers.
The number of multiperson vehicles crossing the Bay Bridge dropped almost 8 percent between the 2009 and 2010 fiscal years, a decrease that was more than twice as much as overall drop in bridge traffic."
More evidence that economic illiterates are running government, especially in the Bay Area.
"For years, carpoolers traveled for free on the region’s eight spans, but on July 1, the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge (among others) imposed tolls specifically aimed at multiperson vehicles. On the Golden Gate Bridge, the toll is $3, and the Bay Bridge, the toll is $2.50.
Most members of the region’s casual carpooling community said the new tolls have not caused a massive shakeup in the system (although ridership data suggest otherwise)."
Government is unable to even read the raw data--or refuses to admit the problem.
More...