Fewer than 60 people so far have submitted public comments about a resurrected proposal to build toll bridge over the Mobile River, with sentiments largely split over the $2.7 billion project.
The latest iteration of the plan calls for a new, higher Bayway with three lanes in either direction replacing the current structure and connecting to a six-lane cable-stayed bridge across the Mobile River. Construction would begin next year and last five years, and then the current Bayway would be torn down.In 2019, the Alabama Department of Transportation pushed a plan that would have included tolls high as $6 per trip, with a frequent-user option costing $90.
Wrote another: “This is robbery. Charging 5.50 to cross a bridge and then 2.50??? We are already living in inflation and the prices are hard enough to live buying food and gas and here ya’ll come pressing us down with a toll? Shame, Shame I say! NO TOLLS! AT ALL! We the people do NOT consent to this down pressing of us and robbing us blind!”“I support the I-10 Mobile River Bridge & Bayway Project. I have no problem with the $2.
Kevin Spriggs, a Baldwin County gas station owner who helped lead the opposition three years ago, said he thinks the proposed toll rates are reasonable. “The state coming in at $250 million, that won’t get the project financed,” he said. “We’re not talking reality until the state comes up with more money.”
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