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Tolls Dominate Forum On Transportation Issues
2015-04-30 07:03:12| Trucking - Topix.net
In what might be a template for any future debate about highway tolls in Connecticut, a Republican legislator, the state's transportation chief and the top lobbyist for the trucking industry sounded off on the topic this week. A panel talk hosted by The Connecticut Mirror on Tuesday evening addressed a series of transportation topics, but levying highway tolls was - not surprisingly - the most controversial.
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MTA fares and tolls increase this Sunday
2015-03-21 14:13:35| Railroads - Topix.net
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is reminding the public that previously announced fare and toll increases will go into effect on Sunday. Details of the new fare and toll rates and ways to save are available at MTA.info along with a new MetroCard bonus calculator.
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Proposal would add tolls on NYC's free bridges, 60th Street
2015-02-17 23:53:33| Railroads - Topix.net
Reviving a congestion-pricing idea that has been rejected before, an influential transportation coalition proposed implementing tolls for all cars that cross 60th Street in Manhattan and the free bridges spanning the East River. The plan announced Tuesday by transportation guru Sam Schwartz, known as "Gridlock Sam," would attempt to solve the looming problem of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's underfunded $32 billion five-year capital plan, which will subsidize important mass transit repairs and expansions on subways, bridges and tunnels around New York.
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Realtors: Portsmouth foreclosure forecast positive, despite tolls
2015-01-06 03:21:56| Real Estate - Topix.net
Surveys showed the city had some of the highest foreclosure rates in the state last year after tolls began at the Downtown and Midtown tunnels. Now that the tolls have increased, WAVY.com found officials are now expecting fewer homes on the auction block.
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MTA sees tolls, fares rising 4 percent
2014-12-18 00:53:19| Railroads - Topix.net
NEW YORK – The Metropolitan Transportation Authority adopted a 2015 budget of $14.5 billion Wednesday that anticipates an average 4 percent toll and fare increase in March.
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