Posted on 12/21/2016 2:53:18 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Toll gates at the Big Apple’s bridges and tunnels will disappear next year as a cashless system is rolled out, Gov. Cuomo announced Wednesday. The new system will be set up beginning in January at the Queens-Midtown and Hugh Carey tunnels, and then throughout the year at the Rockaway, RFK, Verrazano-Narrows, Throgs Neck and Bronx-Whitestone bridges. The system will collect money from drivers using E-ZPass. Those without E-ZPass will get their license plates recorded and receive a bill within 30 days. They will have 30 days to pay. All license plates will be scanned and scofflaws will be ticketed immediately. Toll collectors will be reassigned to work with state police in enforcing the ticketing. “Today’s development is strong and long overdue,” Cuomo said about the effort to speed up traffic and boost security. “Why are you still pulling up to a tollbooth, stopping the car, handing your money to a person who puts it in a drawer, makes change and hands it back to you?” he said.
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Florida is the worst....You can easily spend hundreds of dollars in tolls driving around the state.
Guess I’m never going there again.
Thank God I do not live in NYC.
Welcome to the 21st century.
Fixed. Nobody in NYC cares about the stupid name changes; original names are used by people.
You are in for a surprise
I’d assume that Cuomo will give all the toll booth workers a golden parachute so that they never have to work another day in their life.
At Jones Beach in Long Island, they hire nice kids in the summer who sit in a toll booth to collect fees for beach parking. They’re a far cry from the fat assed, nasty city workers who collect tolls at all the city bridges and tunnels.
Not completely true. I live right by “the Jackie”, which has a nicer ring to it than “Interboro Parkway”.
My wife is a travel nurse and we move every 3-6 months. Thankfully we have the EZ Pass, but what if we didn’t? Are we to depend on someone going to our home once a week to go through our mail? I detest the government.
...and the visitors are from out of state, how many will tear up the bill? Typical liberal move with unintended consequences wrapped up and ready.
Meanwhile, the idiots that run CT are talking about putting tolls BACK on I-95.
Think again.
Congratulations Cuomo! you've just killed jobs.
Are these also pedestrian and/or biking bridges?
I live in FL and drive all around without paying any tolls.
Rental company charges renters cc.
My ez pass comes electronically.
Of course NYC will have to raise Triple the Taxes to make up for the toll money.
That’s progress.
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