More than a year after the money was received to pay for it, a toll feasibility study for the Judge S.S. Jolley Bridge on Marco Island is about to commence.
The Collier County Metropolitan Planning Organization on Friday approved moving ahead with a long-awaited toll feasibility study. Cambridge Systematics was selected as the consultant.
The MPO, a countywide transportation-planning agency, has borrowed $1 million from the state for a study to determine whether tolls would be feasible to speed up the construction timeline.
“However, it is not going to cost anywhere near that much, quite frankly,” Marco Island Councilman Mike Minozzi said.
This total amount may not be spent. The first mission is to determine whether tolls are a viable way of paying for a new bridge, which would replace the existing one built in 1969.
If the answer is no, the rest of the borrowed money will not be spent on studying the design of a new toll plaza.
The bridge once had a toll of 10 cents, which was discontinued in the early 1980s.
Minozzi was elated that the study is finally getting started.
“This (study) is a culmination of many, many years of work,” Minozzi said.
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strike3 writes:
Someone actually needs to study whether or not the additional money from a toll would help pay for the bridge? Let me help..... If you put a toll at the bottom of the bridge that will bring additional $$$....if there is no toll...there is no additional money.
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