Tolls Harm Taxpayers

Any new toll – like the proposed tolls along the Mobile River Bridge and the George C. Wallace Tunnel – are taxes on motorists and businesses.

The toll for the George C. Wallace Tunnel is particularly egregious. Rather than simply toll the new bridge, ALDOT intends to place a toll on the Wallace Tunnel to FORCE Alabama drivers to pay whatever private tolling corporation is awarded the project. Placing a toll on existing infrastructure is double taxation.

Tolls are just more wasteful taxes. Did you know?

Illinois State Toll Highway Authority spends more than $200 million on administrative costs.

The New York Thruway Authority spends more than $270 million on administrative costs.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority spends more than $300 million on administrative costs.

Alabama doesn’t need to waste millions on a tolling bureaucracy. Building new tolls for I-10 would be a violation of public responsibility for Alabamians.