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Say goodbye to toll gates in NYC
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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; bluezones; cuomo; ezpass; gates; newyork; nyc; toll; urban; yeswescan
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To: deport

Florida is the worst....You can easily spend hundreds of dollars in tolls driving around the state.


21 posted on 12/21/2016 3:13:57 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Guess I’m never going there again.


22 posted on 12/21/2016 3:14:26 PM PST by Celerity
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank God I do not live in NYC.


23 posted on 12/21/2016 3:15:04 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Welcome to the 21st century.


25 posted on 12/21/2016 3:23:45 PM PST by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
The new system will be set up beginning in January at the Queens-Midtown and Hugh Carey Brooklyn Battery tunnels, and then throughout the year at the Rockaway, RFK Triborough, Verrazano-Narrows, Throgs Neck and Bronx-Whitestone bridges.

Fixed. Nobody in NYC cares about the stupid name changes; original names are used by people.

26 posted on 12/21/2016 3:24:07 PM PST by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: Celerity

You are in for a surprise


27 posted on 12/21/2016 3:25:36 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
This essay appeared at FR in 2005, and it laid out what will happen when we charge a usage fee for all highways.
28 posted on 12/21/2016 3:28:58 PM PST by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius now available at Amazon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


29 posted on 12/21/2016 3:29:30 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Repeal 16-17

Not completely true. I live right by “the Jackie”, which has a nicer ring to it than “Interboro Parkway”.


30 posted on 12/21/2016 3:31:15 PM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


31 posted on 12/21/2016 3:32:18 PM PST by animal172 (Call me simply deplorable.)
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To: miss marmelstein

...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.


32 posted on 12/21/2016 3:32:27 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Meanwhile, the idiots that run CT are talking about putting tolls BACK on I-95.


33 posted on 12/21/2016 3:36:51 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Rio

Think again.


34 posted on 12/21/2016 3:39:47 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Repeal 16-17
I was not aware that they changed the names. Thanks for the real names.

Congratulations Cuomo! you've just killed jobs.

35 posted on 12/21/2016 3:40:09 PM PST by 1_Rain_Drop
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To: miss marmelstein

Are these also pedestrian and/or biking bridges?


36 posted on 12/21/2016 3:41:31 PM PST by LouieFisk
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To: dfwgator

I live in FL and drive all around without paying any tolls.


37 posted on 12/21/2016 3:42:28 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Rio

Rental company charges renters cc.


38 posted on 12/21/2016 3:43:50 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: animal172

My ez pass comes electronically.


39 posted on 12/21/2016 3:47:28 PM PST by ican'tbelieveit
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Of course NYC will have to raise Triple the Taxes to make up for the toll money.

That’s progress.


40 posted on 12/21/2016 3:58:10 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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