re: Lake Charles Toll Bridge approved

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You can't put lipstick on this pig. If they need to pass along the toll cost to customers, so be it. $12 allocated across everything the truck is carrying will be ok. For a 7000 lb gas tanker, you are looking at an additional cost of... 2/10ths of a penny per gal.

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Now do the costs of all the goods sitting in traffic because the existing bridge only has 4 lanes compared to 6 on the proposed new one. Also figure the cost of the extra maintenance needed to keep the 72 year old bridge from falling down because it is carrying 3 times the traffic load it was designed for.