BY AMANDA HARRISON
Commuters over the Mackinac Bridge will see a toll increase starting this month.
Bob Sweeney is the executive secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority.
He said tolls have been increasing by a dime, each year, since 2008.
The increase will cover the cost of maintenance projects.
"We have the approach spans which are everything accept the very center of the bridge. The very center of the bridge is basically from your anchor pier to anchor pier is a suspension bridge. So each section of the bridge on either side of that is called the approach spans. That we're going to break into about 3 or 4 different projects starting in 2014." Sweeney said.
The cost is expected to be near 80 million dollars. Sweeney expects that full amount to be paid through tolls.