A comment period begins soon for a proposal to raise tolls on the Bay Area’s seven state-owned toll bridges starting in 2026, according to the Bay Area Toll Authority.

The proposed toll hikes would piggyback on a $3 increase approved by voters in the nine-county area as Regional Measure 3 in 2018 that added a $1 increase in 2019, another in 2022 and will add a final $1 increase on Jan. 1, 2025, bringing the toll for regular two-axle cars and trucks to $8 to cross a bridge.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.