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Cybergal · **^ Top** #1 04.29.2008

New York Thruway to increase tolls in 2009 and 2010
4/28/08

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The New York Thruway Authority Board of Directors voted to increase tolls by 5 percent in 2009 and an additional 5 percent in 2010 despite political pressure and the urging of the state comptroller to hold off on the increases.
The vote on Friday, April 25, came just a few months after the board voted to increase tolls by 10 percent beginning Jan. 1, 2008.

The board put off voting on the 2009 and 2010 increases until after the state officials negotiated final details for the 2008-09 fiscal year. The budget agreement, which was announced April 9, capped state spending growth at 1 percent instead of the typical 5 percent seen in recent years.
“Had relief been provided, the Authority could have pursued other options, but the increase is, now, the last resort,” Thruway officials stated in a press release.

A 285-mile east-west trip on the Thruway from Albany to Buffalo currently costs a five-axle truck $52.16 with E-ZPass or $54.90 in cash.
A 5 percent increase in 2009 would make the E-ZPass toll $54.77 and the cash toll $57.65.
The 5 percent in 2010 would push tolls to $57.51 for E-ZPass and to $60.53 for cash.
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bartage · **^ Top** #2 04.30.2008

if you think that is the least that they have done try living here every 1-2 weeks they want to find a way to make th i190 a toll road again in new york the hi way athority dose not not have to answer to any state or fedral government and is for the most part lawless and dose not answer even to the press!!!

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