New York State Thurway Toll Hike January 1, 2008

[Billsman]

ALBANY SUCKS!
http://wivb.images.worldnow.com/images/static/gfx/pxl_trans.gif(December 19, 2007) - - The new year will bring higher tolls for some drivers along the New York State Thruway.
The Thruway Authority signed off on a new budget, meaning that effective January 1st, drivers who pay cash will see a ten-percent toll increase. These increases were approved two years ago. This is different from another proposed hike which won't be voted on until the spring.

Do you think you're getting your money out of what you pay to travel on the thruway?
Nate Deveso, Town of Tonawanda, "No. I mean the roads are decent compared to some others. But when you spend all day driving and havng to pay, I find myself going around the thruway tolls."

[jaymitch84]

That means the cost each way to drive to Buffalo from Ithaca will go from 3.65 to around 4.

Thanks Albany, thanks a lot.

[Billsman]

Its also going up again in 2008 from what the talk is.

[dmbfn40]

You know when they built the thruway, the agreement was it could be a toll road until the thruway was paid for. Then the tolls would stop . . . the thruway had been paid for 5 time over (or something like that)

[Wing Eater]

You know when they built the thruway, the agreement was it could be a toll road until the thruway was paid for. Then the tolls would stop . . . the thruway had been paid for 5 time over (or something like that)

I've heard this several times now, and I wonder if it was in the actual bill passed to create Thruway. If it was, then why hasn't there been a lawsuit filed over it?

[JLB]

That means the cost each way to drive to Buffalo from Ithaca will go from 3.65 to around 4.

Thanks Albany, thanks a lot.

Bitches. :nono:

[JMNY83]

Correct me if I'm wrong but when they added the tolls weren't they supposed to be around only 25 yrs and now they are still around and getting more expensive?

[JLB]

Correct me if I'm wrong but when they added the tolls weren't they supposed to be around only 25 yrs and now they are still around and getting more expensive?

yep and they'll tell you it's for road maintenance, plowing, salting shit like that.

[35Pete]

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[Billsman]

All we can do as WNY's is write our reps here and complain. Hell, write to Spitzer too.

To Write To The Governor:
Eliot Spitzer
State Capitol
Albany, NY 12224

518-474-8390

To Email The Governor:
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[Billsman]

Done! Wrote him a email asking for help in WNY.
Office of the
Governor

Thank you for sending your thoughts and concerns to Governor Spitzer. Your email has been received and will be forwarded to the appropriate staff for review.

[dmbfn40]

In 1997, the construction bond used to build the Thruway had been paid off, and all tolls along the Thruway were supposed to be abolished. However, the New York State Legislature voted to maintain the tolls. This action has engendered regional hostility within the state, particularly from the upstate counties which see the maintenance of the toll as a regional-based tax and that the tolls help maintain the economic disparity between the poor, rural upstate and the rich, urban downstate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Thruway#History

Took me a while but I found it