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Unpaid MTA tolls soar to $350M in a year as officials aim to get tough on deadbeat NYC drivers
NY Post ^ | 3/23/26 | Haley Brown

Posted on 03/23/2026 4:52:04 PM PDT by Libloather

Deadbeat drivers left nearly $350 million in tolls unpaid in 2025 — more than double the annual total from three years earlier, a new MTA analysis estimated.

The staggering figure comes after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority adopted a “cashless” system — with officials now looking turning for the state to pass legislation that would take extreme measures in some cases, like allow the agency to put liens on the property or bank accounts of scofflaws.

“Preliminary data for 2025 indicate that upward trend has continued, and interventions adopted in 2024 have not gone far enough to mitigate impacts of persistent toll violators,” the analysis states, which was first reported by Streetsblog.

The analysis showed figures surging from $147 million in 2022, with obscured license plates and repeat offenders ignoring their mail notices possibly driving contributing the massive growth.

Unpaid tolls totaled $202 million in 2024 and $187 million in 2023, according to the MTA.

The increase from 2024 to 2025 — about $148 million — is about 10 times the $15 million year-over-year rise between 2023 and 2024. The surge came just New York launched a controversial new congestion toll program that charges drivers entering Midtown Manhattan.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Travel
KEYWORDS: deadbeat; drivers; nyc; tolls
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1 posted on 03/23/2026 4:52:04 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

“””The staggering figure comes after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority adopted a “cashless” system —”””


But, but the law says the drivers are supposed to pay.

I guess NYC needs to add a new law.

This result at MTA is kinda like people registering to vote and claiming they are a US Citizen. It is against the law and they still do it.

Maybe we need the Save America Act.


2 posted on 03/23/2026 4:59:59 PM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: Libloather

They’ve fled to FL.


3 posted on 03/23/2026 5:01:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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To: Libloather

In NYC, tolls, much like Child Care, need to be free.


4 posted on 03/23/2026 5:19:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

The cashless system is dumb. It is good friends some things but it is not well run. For visitors anyway

They scammed me. And if you don’t have a meter forget it


5 posted on 03/23/2026 5:19:30 PM PDT by stanne
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To: Libloather

ROTFL! Those rowdy liberal Massachusetts graybearded old ladies. They’re always angry as hell.


6 posted on 03/23/2026 5:20:26 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Governor Prickster Welcomes you to "The Wrong Place At the Wrong Time". Hope you brought bullets.)
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To: Paladin2

> In NYC, tolls, much like Child Care, need to be free. <

Yes, good point. In a socialist paradise, everything is supposed to be free.
Mayor Mamdani needs to go back and reread his copy of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital”.


7 posted on 03/23/2026 5:26:48 PM PDT by Leaning Right (It's morning in America. Again.)
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To: Libloather

It’s the illegal wetbacks


8 posted on 03/23/2026 5:36:29 PM PDT by Palio di Siena (Kralik…..you get the wallet)
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To: Libloather

And fare beaters cost NYChitty $1 billion (that’s correct- billion) in 2024....but its the rich who need to pay their fair share...

MTA lost $1B to fare-beating — and our NYC leaders still do nothing to stop it

https://nypost.com/2025/09/12/opinion/mta-lost-1b-to-fare-beating-and-our-nyc-leaders-do-nothing-to-stop-it/


9 posted on 03/23/2026 5:36:50 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Libloather

But, but, but...doesn’t the “warmth of the collective” give everybody a free pass? How capitalist of them to expect people to pay for a service rendered.


10 posted on 03/23/2026 5:48:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Libloather

350 million isn’t chump change. It is enough to pay for one very small office building of non existent fraudulent Hospice care “companies” for one year.


11 posted on 03/23/2026 5:57:24 PM PDT by DAC21
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