While drivers say they empathize with the bridge collapse, they don't think the financial impact of it should fall on their wallets.
"Tolls, OK, where they are at, don't increase," said driver Bryant Claiborne. "You can always decrease, but don't increase."
Just how much more drivers will be paying is still in question as Congress remains stalled over a bill that would pay for the entire Key Bridge rebuild.
Drivers are currently paying anywhere from $3 to $6 to pass through both tunnels in Baltimore City and cross over the Bay Bridge in Annapolis.
MDTA says they originally planned to increase prices in 2028 due in part to inflation.
But after losing revenue from the collapsed bridge, MDTA officials have no choice but to move it up a year.
Tolls are already too high
Drivers say the toll cost is already too high.
"The cost-of-living is already high, food, gas is high," Claiborne said. "Products are high, toilet paper is high, and then you're going to tax us once again on the bridge?"
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