This is something I will support and HOPE the opposition will pressure the Govt to do so. NOTE, I am not saying Mo Fiah Slo Fiah to get it down, we are NOT Afghanistan .

Hope the AFC take action soon.

They can certainly do so, but where do they expect to offset this reduction in revenue for the Government...

The Holland Tunnel and other New YOrk/NJ crossings used to be $4,  18 years ago..now they are all $13..and guess what we have to live with it.

The AFC is really digging for things to complain about!!

The profit is going to the friends of the PPP/C.

Abenaki/alena it is clear that you do not understand that the PPP give the Demerara harbor bridge 700 million every year.  What happen to berbice, goat bite them.  Why can't the PPP give the berbice bridge a subvention to help reduce the toll charge?

Abenaki????  Most people here know I have been posting here for abt 8 years now and I have one nic.

Maybe they don't have the money to allot to the Berbice bridge...but this is such a petty issue.

You are learning Abidah's strategy to use strikethrough. 

That's a lame argument that the profit is going to their friends..

The AFC is correct on this one and should pursue.  A bridge of this type and use should not be paid for by tolls only.  The Govt needs to kick in and subsidize operating/carrying costs as this stimulates general macro growth well beyond the actual use of the bridge.  Rather than paying for hotels, they should pay for bridges and roads.

Baseman supports the AFC on this.

One of the reasons for the big increase has to do with deficits and the fact that the increase does not impede growth. It does reduce private traffic into NYC, one goal of the increase.

Maybe they have done a cost/benefit analysis on the hotel project and think it is worth it.  We cannot assume that the AFC is right.

The increase in tolls at the Holland Tunnel has not decreased private traffic at all, I would love that for my personal commute.

You said you husband was an asist Prof and work at a second job as well and you also work. Together your salary should be in the 125K a year for and average middle class family. The average Guyanese makes 1500 a year and having to pay 11 dollars to cross the bridge. Does that make sense? And to kick one in the stomach, the people financed at least one half of it.  Worse, they drained the NIS to back this project.

Why should Guyanese taxpayers subsidize the profits of PPP oligarchs??

Wouldn’t a better plan be to [re]introduce competition on the river crossing?

and . . . what is this nonsense comparison of the Holland Tunnel with the Berbice [floating] Bridge? The NY/NJ Port Authority is not an oligarchic entity trying to maximize profits for investors on the backs of defenseless taxpayers/commuters

C. Ram worked the numbers to show how they can reduce it without imperiling NIS or the investors. 

It's not an excuse. It's a fact that you cannot deny. They are making a profit and yet they get a subvention from the PPP/C government.

You freaking out, I think you losing it bai.

heh heh heh

Baseman, much respect.  The analogy of the Holland tunnel is of no relevance and out of context if not ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable.

Well Alena, if that increase does not deter traffic or impede growth, then it's justified.  Unlike the BBce bridge toll which is a barrier to commerce as the poor people and businesses cannot leverage it.  So, the comparison is out of context.

Alena, there are costs/benefits to almost everything, but it's a matter of choice as resources are finite.  A Govt must look out for the general well-being of the people and nation, not any specific narrow business interest.

I find it difficult to reconcile the benefits of the hotel for rich locals and visitors to that of an affordable key bridge for the populace.

the terms of the deal to do this bridge were execrable from the outset

yes . . . Chris Ram's solution may be the best last chance to clamber out of this Jagdeoite hole in one piece

I have a solution to the high toll. If the Berbice river toll is too expensive for some, I suggest you swim you bumba clat across the river or improvise a way to get on the other side. The govt have to make back the money for the cost of the bridge. 

bai, it might have escaped u, but i understand the Gov't already contributing its share so that the 'private' bondholders can get paid

since the accounting as it stands points to an insolvency otherwise, one has to ponder what comic book assumptions were built into the tiefman model when this pig in bag was conceived.

my visceral reaction is to re-open the ferry, let the damn bridge company collapse under its own corrupt weight and have the oligarchs take a very close haircut . . . unfortunately, a not very practical solution given the implications

i now shudder to think what Brassington and the rent seeking hustlers nurtured under Jagdeo have in store for poor Guyanese (as far as the downstream price of electricity goes) with the $USbillion BOOT Amaila Falls Frankenstein teed up

NICIL . . . the anti-fiduciary

It is funny that the afc/pnc supporters are now complaining about the tolls of the bbice bridge when their leadership, Ramjattan and Nagamootoo both were part and parcel to the bridge deal many years back. Only now these two gentlemen developed a conscience. Bridges and other infrastructure cost money to build and maintain, at the inception it was agreed that a partnership of govt and private enterprise was the best option to get this project off the ground rather than putting the burden solely on govt. You fools are being facetious with your crocodile tears about poor bbcians as none of you actually care about them. 

The tolls have always been a point of contention.  It's just too high in my opinion for the Guyanese purchasing power.

Goads, just remember you started the name calling.

You have to be dumb jackass to be posting this type of crap. The AFC have always complained about transparency and the high tolls.

if the berbice people start a protest against the bridge what will be the out come maybe the first step is to stop using the bridge for 1 week you think the police will shoot them down like the linden protest its time the people of berbice fight for their rights these people live with blackout every day and no meanfull development