Golden Gate Bridge Considers Charging Pedestrians, Cyclists

[jeffandnicole]

Also, metro tunnels are not comparable.  When you pay to use them, you are also paying for mechanical transport from one end to the other.  When you cross the GGB as a pedestrian or bicyclist, you are supplying your own power and enhancing your own muscular strength and cardiovascular fitness, which all people should be doing.  Why disincentivize them from doing so by charging them?

Where have I heard a similar argument?  Oh yeah...

I already paid a fuel tax.  Why do I have to pay a toll also? 

[J N Winkler]

Where have I heard a similar argument?  Oh yeah...

I already paid a fuel tax.  Why do I have to pay a toll also?

This is not your father's double-charging argument.  Exercise is virtuous and thus deserves treatment on the same basis as, oh, DMV clean-air decals.

[vdeane]

You mean I have to PAY to commit suicide?

More like make an unsuccessful attempt.  They're installing a suicide fence/net if they haven't already.