re: Why is LA so against toll roads?

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Yep where does the federal money go now for the highways?

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We aren't getting the federal money because we can't match our share of state money to get it.

Basically, they have 90/10 projects where Feds pay 90% of cost, but we have to first match the 10% of our share. We can't do it, so we leave a ton of federal dollars on the table.


Now, if we were to place a toll on every bridge over the Mississippi not connected to the interstate, which that consists of only two(BR and Vicksburg) then we could have those bridges pay for their own maintenance and reallocate the state funds elsewhere in the infrastructure.

Or we could raise the gas tax.

We should do both.