It’s probably not the most unexpected piece of news that tolling on the 520 floating bridge has cut deeply into the number of drivers crossing Lake Washington on it — most of them heading to the I-90 bridge. Commenter Charybdis, though, offers her own grouchy perspective in our Comment of the Day:Predictable. Washington liberals couldn’t predict the behavior of a maze rat smelling out a piece of cheese, let alone how this toll would affect driving behavior. My 11 year-old figured it out right away when I told him about it, though. So when can we expect the House Bill to tax the rest of us to pay for the shortfall?Follow The Daily Weekly on Facebook and Twitter.
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