Huge Toll Hike seen in NJ Governor Corizine's plan

[LynneSin]

Huge toll hike seen in Corzine plan

http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070830/NEWS03/708300310/1007


By TOM HESTER Jr.
The Associated Press

TRENTON -- The average New Jersey Turnpike commuter may pay $2,400 in tolls annually under Gov. Jon S. Corzine's plan to try to resolve state fiscal problems by increasing highway tolls, according to a Wall Street lawyer.

Corzine has refused to say how much tolls may increase as part of his plan to earn more money from state properties to pay debt and free money for unmet needs, but the attorney who analyzed his concept said a 150 percent toll increase is plausible.

"We just wanted to give an example of what it would be so people would get an idea," said the attorney, Peter Humphreys, a partner in the McDermott Will & Emery law firm in New York who is working with a coalition formed to monitor Corzine's plan called Save Our Assets NJ.

[Burma Jones]

1. That's IT....I'm getting a damn Boat

There's gonna be a lot of state shortfalls in the next few years.

[LynneSin]

2. And what about Maryland's fricking $5 poll in the middle of 95

Of course once a year I'll take that bridge in Aberdeen and get the sticker so I don't have to pay that toll again

[Burma Jones]

3. I used to live in NY, not Manhattan, and I paid tolls all the damn time

just another of the thousand small cuts that New Yorkers suffer on a daily basis.......

My Dad lives in NC, and I drive 95 south three or four times a year. Sure, there are no tolls, but it's only two lanes each way and it gets crowded. If I can get three or four lanes each side, I'll pay the tolls........

[LynneSin]

4. BTW we're expanding 1-95 an extra lane

It'll be about 4-5 lanes through the worst section of 95

[LostinVA]

5. But there will still only be two lanes open at the toll plaza during rush hour

[Burma Jones]

6. Plus the EZ Pass Lanes

Love the EZ Pass.......

[GalleryGod]

7. Next to reliable condoms...EZ Pass is the greatest invention of the Late 20th Century!

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