Bridge Tolls Further Discussed (The Peninsula Gateway, 5/3/40)
Dear Editor:
With almost a magic touch, as a people of a heretofore remote region, we now find our lives potentially enriched when we behold that colossal and magnificent structure of concrete and steel, dream of the decades, picturesquely posing astride that ancient barrier, the Narrows. But now it must be pointed out that the added benefits thus offered are largely potential and will remain so unless this new gateway is unlocked to all sizes of pocketbooks, from that of the distressed egg and berry producer to that of the more favored American found comfortably touring our highways.
The tribute to be exacted for the privilege of using this new link to our highway system should be so tempered and modified that the door step of every Peninsula home however lowly or humble can feel itself in closer communion with the advantages of the larger centers. If this aspect of the problem should be sadly ignored by the toll authority then the whole program will be most unfair to a great number of people, and in vain will this proud bridge with its lofty towers and ribbons of steel have been made to conquer the Narrows for them.
Respectfully yours,
Milo Goodale
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Bridge Tolls Discussed (The Peninsula Gateway, 6/7/40)
Editor of the Peninsula Gateway,
This writer has been a resident of the community a greater part of the time for the past 36 years and has taken an active part in the affairs of the community in which I live. For that reason I feel that I have been in touch with the problems of the communityThe greatest of all the problems has been the cost of transportation across the sound we turned to the idea of a bridge. After many years of waiting and work we are to have the bridge but to our dismay, we discover the cost of our transportation will be greater than ever beforeit seems for all our years of endeavor we have acquired for ourselves a very nice white elephant and nothing else.
Alva McKinley
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About Those Bridge Tolls (The Peninsula Gateway Editorial, 6/14/40)
The fight has just begun for lower rates over the Narrows Bridge, or a free bridge. In our opinion either one of these things is possible The Lake Washington bridge cost, including approaches, just about twice what the Narrows Bridge cost, but the tolls will be less than half what ours will be. The low rates over the Lake Washington bridge are placed so as to encourage traffic. The rates over our bridge are placed so as to discourage traffic...In our opinion we should begin to fight right now for a toll free bridge. The money is available if the State Highway Department desires to use it that way, and if the department will not be governed by fair play and reason the legislature has the power to provide a way. Let us begin NOW to boost for a toll free bridge.
All those who are circulating petitions for lower rates are requested to keep up the good work. And anyone who may desire blank petitions may secure the same at the Gateway office. We have got to keep up the fight.