MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – Alabama transportation officials and local leaders have promised for years that tolls on a new bridge over the Mobile River would never rise.
Documents submitted in support of the sale of revenue bonds, though, lay out a schedule of automatic yearly increases. Tolls “shall be automatically adjusted annually on January 1 of each year,” those documents state.
Tony Harris, a spokesman for the Alabama Department of Transportation, confirmed that the tolling plan had changed. He said it is the only way the state can pay back the money it is borrowing for what will be the most expensive infrastructure project in the state’s history…