SANDAG voted to proceed with a study that will produce a detailed timeline and cost assessment associated with dropping tolls on SR-125.
SAN DIEGO — Drivers using SR-125 could one day do so for free.eliminating tolls on the South Bay thoroughfareSupporters say allowing people to use it for free will reduce congestion elsewhere and improve equity in the region.Fenton said he and his neighbors rarely use the freeway because they don't want to
"We go that way, take the back route through the neighborhood and save the toll because why pay a toll to go two miles?" he said.At Friday's SANDAG meeting, the board voted to proceed with a study that will produce a detailed timeline and cost assessment associated with dropping tolls along the 125."State Route 125 represents a clear inequity in our transportation system.
Supervisor Joel Anderson, who sits on the SANDAG board expressed concern saying that money could be used to address SR-67, the only escape route for hundreds of thousands of east county residents during wildfires. "You know I have grave concerns about spending $600,000 on an equity analysis when we're not spending any money to look at the economic cost of lives being lost because we failed to build a road that's adequate," said Anderson.SANDAG acquired the 10-mile expressway through a lease with Caltrans in 2011 and still needs revenue to pay off that debt.Mayor McCann hopes the 125 will be free within the next four years.
"We have already refinanced the bonds. And we had set and got SANDAG approval a couple years ago to make sure that the road was paid off in 2028,” said McCann.
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