New York and New Jersey drivers pay nearly one-third of all U.S. tolls, report says

nydailynews.com ^ | october 6, 2015 | brittnay robins

[BatGuano]

My lovely wife, of 36 years, is from Queens, NYC. That explains how she “can take money out of (my) pockets” twice as fast! We always remark, when taking a bridge or tunnel, “how can the commuter afford these costs?” And, to boot, the city taxes the folks from outlying states for the “privilege of working in our great city.”
We live in Florida and have some toll roads but they are not as obnoxious as those in New York.

[gr8eman]

Like they’re still paying off those bridges. Funny thing is all of those people routinely vote for tax and toll increases. Good for them...at least they’re paying their fair share /s

[Ray76]

I rail against tolls (like those thieve states Delaware and Maryland) but there are a lot of bridges and tunnels at NYC and they are all major structures.

tolled:

George Washington Bridge
Verrazano Bridge
Triborough Bridge
Whitestone Bridge
Throgs Neck Bridge
Goethals Bridge
Bayonne Bridge
Outer Bridge
Brooklyn Battery Tunnel
Holland Tunnel
Lincoln Tunnel
Queens Midtown Tunnel
Marine Parkway Bridge
Cross Bay Bridge

http://web.mta.info/bandt/html/btmap.html
http://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/

There are other major structures that are not tolled:

Brooklyn Bridge
Williamsburg Bridge
Manhattan Bridge

And a zillion other bridges

It’s no surprise that most tolls are collected there.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Local roads, lincoln tunnel. 6 bucks. Outerbridge to manhattan with a return via lincoln tunnel to local roads, 14 bucks. Parking 800 a month.

Better off taking the bus or train.

[Sirius Lee]

NY/NJ residents voted for, and put up with, this faggotry. They should raise the tolls even more. Eat Karma beotches!

[Alberta's Child]

The dirty little secret is that New Jersey is such a small state that a disproportionate amount of its toll revenue comes from out-of-state motorists and truckers. That’s why New Jersey has one of the lowest fuel taxes of any state in the nation.

[Ray76]

I don’t know how anyone can live there.

Everything costs a fortune and you’re taxed six ways to Sunday.

[proxy_user]

You’d be surprised what people will put up with, if their salary is $300K a year.

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

I’ve never paid a toll in my entire life.

[trisham]

Where do you live?

[ScottWalkerForPresident2016]

TN

[trisham]

Tennessee?

The Great State of Tennessee
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"Tennessee has played a critical role in the development of rock and roll and early blues music. Beale Street in Memphis is considered by many to be the birthplace of the blues, with musicians such as W.C. Handy performing in its clubs as early as 1909.
Memphis was also home to Sun Records, where musicians such as Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Charlie Rich began their recording careers, and where rock and roll took shape in the 1950s.
The 1927 Victor recording sessions in Bristol generally mark the beginning of the country music genre, and the rise of the Grand Ole Opry in the 1930s helped make Nashville the center of the country music recording industry."
Source: Wikipedia

Thank you, Tennessee FReepers!
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[Soul of the South]

North Carolina’s elected representatives seem intent on NC adopting toll roads despite strong opposition by the voting public. This is what electing a GOP governor and legislature has brought us. Plus a foreign company has been given a 50 year contract to build and operate the toll lanes.

The priority of today’s Republican Party. Corporatism and globalism first. American taxpayers last.

http://www.wcnc.com/story/news/local/2014/08/21/how-much-will-i-77-tolls-cost/14408687/

[XRdsRev]

“New Jersey is such a small state that a disproportionate amount of its toll revenue comes from out-of-state motorists and truckers.”

That is true of many states with tolled major highways. At least in NJ there are only three toll highways (NJ Turnpike, Garden State Parkway & Atlantic City Expressway). The Turnpike toll is easily circumvented from exit 7 south to Exit 1 by taking I-295 which is free and runs parallel. The Parkway and AC Expressway have no comparable alternatives. Going east/west I-80, I-78 & I-195 are all free (except for the Delaware & Hudson river crossings.

Delaware is a swindle since they bang you $4 for travelling I-95 for a few crummy miles with no other option than the hundred traffic lights on RT 40. Maryland says I-95 is free but when you cross the Susquehanna River they beat you for $8 going north.

[XRdsRev]

“I don’t know how anyone can live there.”

Because if you are in the right areas, it is a great place to live. An absolutely astounding amount of things to do, see and experience from city to wilderness, colonial history to ultra modern. It definitely isn’t for everyone though that is for sure.

[biff]

All they gotta do is leave.

[EinNYC]

Driving around NYC street is like driving through a boulder-strewn wilderness. There are unfilled potholes, areas of just pieces of loose asphalt instead of a paved road, areas where the asphalt forms waves, sinkholes, etc. You can rarely drive at the posted speed. I always ask myself, “What the heck are they doing with all the tolls and taxes they collect? Sure ain’t fixing the roads!”

[PeteB570]

For years the North Carolina Highway Trust Fund was slush money for the General Assembly.

Little pet non-highway projects would get funded and then the state would grumble they didn’t have enough money to fix the roads.