toll rates

Steve Lonegan of the local branch of Americans for Prosperity sees it as his job to speak up for the people of his state who are facing higher and higher expenses supporting various government agencies. So when the New Jersey Turnpike raises tolls by 50% Lonegan is into it. And he's being quoted as saying the people of the state "will now face the highest tolls in the country.” 

TransCore have achieved factory acceptance of the complex interoperable electronic toll system they are readying for the startup later this year on the Triangle Expressway in Raleigh NC.  Lodged midway between the hardcase battery-powered E-ZPass states to the north and SunPass batteryless sticker tag states to the south, Nort

1    AN ACT concerning the collection of tolls by the New Jersey
2    Turnpike    Authority    and    supplementing    P .L.1948,    c.454
3    (C.27:23-1 et seq.).
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5    BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and General Assembly of the State
6    of New Jersey:
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The Washington DC metro area's long-awaited Intercounty Connector (ICC) tollroad will open its first western segment late 2010 or early 2011 with peak-hour toll rates of 25c/mile, 20c/mile off-peak and 10c night rates for cars. In metric measures that's 15.5c/km, 12c/km, and 6c/km.

Maryland's Intercounty Connector (ICC or MD200) in the northern suburbs of Washington DC metro area will manage free flow with tolls that could vary between 10c/mile and 35c/mile (6c/km to 22c/km) for cars.

The Massachusetts Turnpike board last week deferred decisions on a budget for the next financial year amid fears that its deteriorating financial situation might cause its credit rating to be downgraded to junk bond status.

North Carolina Turnpike Authority (NCTA) announced its first toll rates - a base toll of 13.5c/mile (8.4c/km) for cars using transponders. The tolling on the Triangle Expressway in the western area of Raleigh is due to begin in December 2010.

Massachusetts officials are looking at a variety of measures to generate more funds for transport, local reports say. The Boston Globe reports the chairman of the legislature's joint transportation committee Senator Steven Baddour (Dem) as saying that "everything needs to be on the table".

US Congressman Frank R Wolf (Repub, N VA) wants the Virginia state government to toughen its law to make toll increases on the Dulles Greenway more difficult. And he wants the state's corporation commission (VSCC) which regulates the Greenway to delay a hearing on higher toll caps. Wolf known ideologically as a RINO (Republican-In-Name-Only) frequently takes up leftwing causes and as a federal politician has no jurisdiction over the Greenway which is purely a state road.