What a disaster.

Businesses have been complaining for years now: "Why are the tourists only day trippers?" Probably because of the 18% hotel/B&B tax, now a tax of food and drink, more expensive tolls, expensive everything.

You keep raising taxes, people will leave, its that simple.

The Newport Bridge toll makes sense, its a very complicated and expensive structure that requires expensive maintenance (over 500 feet high, 2 miles long, made of steel and needs to be painted). The Sakonnet river bridge is much shorter in length, lower in height, made of concrete (not steel) doesn't need to be painted, doesn't need the same maintenance, but the toll will be the same, WHY?

Because people on the island need good jobs (with a retirement plan and healthcare), and the only way to deliver good jobs is to tax their friends and neighbors and steal their money from them to give to another, more connected person.

"Its only 83 cents" except if you happen to have a real job, in Providence or Boston, and commute to work everyday ($600.00/year), thereby supporting your local economy with property taxes. Most of that $600.00 will go to someone down the street who got a job at RIBTA, because they have a friend or family member who works there.

The gig is up

Big mistake,you are keeping islanders in and keeping business out and that is a disaster that will come back and bite you.

From a resident first of Middletown, now of Jamestown, it always seemed unfair that the Newport Bridge was the only bridge with tolls. I am hoping that this sort of levels the playing field for all RI'ers.

wow kind of like moving your bussiness to china to save a few bucks

If this business was making a decent profit I doubt she would be moving, a toll of $1.70 per day surely would not bankrupt a good business.
The State was refused the chance to put a toll on I95 by the feds but they allowed a toll in North Carolina, direct some anger in that direction and maybe ask for some reasonable toll for county residents and commercial entities.

Instead of a toll, privately employed individuals should just have to provide their routing and checking number to the state, so the state can use their discretion to determine how much each of us should have in our checking accounts.

It would be more to the point and efficient

most effective and least disrruptive, raise the tolls where they are

I've started a petition through change.org Please take a minute to sign!
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-rhode-island-turnpike-and-bridge-authority

Throw out the scum
MARCH ON THE. RIDGE
USE THE SCUM OBAMAS TACTICS.

CUT EXPENSES

Stop the waste

Cut POLITICIANS SALARIES

Toll booths? THe toll booth for the new bridge are NOT on the new bridge itself, they are to be located further up on rt 24, when you drive over the bridge you pass the weigh station then the fish road exit, at which point you would come to the tolls, so local can drive 5 or 10 minutes out of our way and never pay a toll if we wish, So surprise alot of this falls on Middletown and Newport shoulders I'm from Tiverton, but I just don't like the idea of my Home Aquidneck Island is about to be treated like an amusement park that you must pay to come to and pay to leave, and become a cash cow for the rest of the state Newport county is a cash cow for this state in sales tax alone, like any living thing you start to bleed it and soner or later it just gets weeker and puts out less milk, thats what tolls will do NO TOLLS

Again
CALL WRITE VISIT IN PERSON YOU POLITICIANS WHO ARE THE ONES THAT PRIMISED YOU PROSPERITY ABD NOW WANT TO TAKE EVERYTHHING IUT OF YOUR CHECKING ACCT.

TELL THEM TI FIX OR BE PREPARED FOR GETTING THROWN OUT

Get rid of the scu

Haven't they done enough damage?????