San Francisco plans tolls between Peninsula and the city

[The Northerner]

Welcome to San Francisco. That'll be three bucks to enter, and three more bucks to leave.

Sound nuts? Not to the San Francisco Transportation Authority. The agency is considering a proposal to turn the line with San Mateo County into a virtual toll plaza, charging rush-hour commuters up to $6 each weekday to cross into -- and out of -- the city by the bay.

Nearly half a million drivers cross from San Mateo County into San Francisco each day on one of five highways, according to Caltrans. And San Francisco officials hear the ka-ching of $60 million to $80 million in profits each year to improve the city's roads, transit, and bicycle and pedestrian networks.

Drivers everywhere else -- especially to the south -- see a raw deal.

"It's absolutely nonsensical," said Daly City Councilman David Canepa, who also called the plan terrible, atrocious and egregious. "It's a slap in all of our faces."

San Francisco officials said they would spend $60 million to $100 million to set up the electronic system, coupled with local transit improvements, starting in 2015. It would be the first local "congestion pricing" system in the country and could begin as a 6- to 12-month pilot program that, if successful, could become permanent.

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[EFerrari]

1. Iirc, this proposal has been dropped. This article is from November.

SF Drops Toll Plan

http://smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?type=lnews&title=San%20Francisco%20drops%20border%20toll%20idea&id=148321

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. Old news of a plan --

that went nowhere.