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https://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/heavy-traffic.jpg376333Interesting: tolling revenues on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge are starting to seriously lag behind the official projections. Of course, the blue bars on the chart shows toll revenues, not traffic volumes. Unfortunately, the state hasn't reported traffic counts in a while. And since revenues don't always move in lock step with traffic counts (because tolling rates vary depending on vehicle size and payment method), I can only assume that traffic volumes are also falling short of projections.