Especially if gas tax revenue was used to build and maintain the bridge.

State governments are pulling this sort of scam all over the place. The latest one is "privatization" like what our own Governor Scott tried to pull off a few years back.

He proposed selling the State Turnpike, the Ronald Reagan Trail of Tears (a toll road, built and maintained by the taxpayer) to a foreign private company which would be solely responsible for maintaining the road and collecting tolls. The cash payment would be immediately applied to...you guessed it...lowering corporate taxes which would suddenly, miraculously, "create jobs".

This is real Milo Minderbinder stuff.