New Jersey
New York and Jersey toll agencies agree to give up free transponders for board members
Posted Wed, 2008-06-04 19:21
New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) - of which the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel toll authority is a division - is reversing its stance defending free toll transponders (and transit passes) for current and former board members. They announced May 29 that they would, after all, comply with state Attorney-General Andrew Cuomo's May 25 demand that the program be discontinued immediately.
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NJ Turnpike consolidator McGreevey tabloid fodder, New NTTA director (PERSONNEL)
Posted Wed, 2008-05-21 17:44James McGreevey was a hard charging, order screaming governor who, good or bad, had a lasting impact on American tollroads during his short term in office Jan 2002 to Nov 2004. He came to office promising to consolidate the state's three tollroads into one super-efficient entity.
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Proposal to hike NJ tolls 50% in 2008 and 2013 and toll I-78 and I-80
Posted Wed, 2008-04-30 17:35
A leading New Jersey legislator Senator Ray Lesniak says he's pushing a plan to boost toll revenues in the state to support what he calls "absolutely necessary" transport improvements. The plan involves two 50% hikes in tolls, one immediately and the other in five years time.
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NJ Gov Corzine acknowledges lack of support for his big toll hikes plan
Posted Wed, 2008-03-05 22:23Governor Corzine has acknowledged he isn't getting political support for his big tollroads monetization plan that he put out early this year. And his supporters are saying only a much scaled down version of the plan is
possible together with abandonment of the elaborate set of political cutouts Corzine proposed to limit backsliding - what some have characterized as a Rube Goldberg legal contraption.
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Corzine caves on tolling NJ440 - says "not central"
Posted Thu, 2008-02-14 21:47610 words read more »
NJ Repubs challenge constitutionality of Corzine tollroads scheme - say can't grant franchise to PBC
Posted Wed, 2008-02-13 20:36New Jersey Republican legislative leaders have raised an interesting constitutional challenge to
Governor Cozine's tollroad monetization scheme. Senate GOP leader Tom Kean and assembly leader Alex DeCroce say it violates a constitutional bar on granting special privileges.
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Gov Corzine releases draft bill to monetize New Jersey tollroads
Posted Tue, 2008-02-05 05:02
Under Governor Corzine's draft legislation to monetize New Jersey's tollroads, the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Expressway and NJ440 would be transferred to a New Jersey Turnpike Authority reconstituted as New Jersey Capital Solutions Corporation (NJCSC). 1985 words read more »
Corzine puts $s where mouth is - a personal $500k to press tolls plan
Posted Mon, 2008-02-04 12:50308 words read more »
NJ senate president proposes frequent E-ZPass driver discounts to Corzine plan
Posted Fri, 2008-01-25 12:02New Jersey senate president Richard J Codey is proposing frequent driver discounts as a way of easing the pain of toll increases proposed by Gov Corzine. He's suggesting a 20% discount for tolls with monthly bills of over $200 and smaller discounts of 15, 10 and 5 percent for smaller bills. The discounts would be applied to E-ZPass accounts. About 60% of tolls in the state are taken by E-ZPass.
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57/34 public opposition to NJ Governor's tollroads plan - PublicMind poll
Posted Tue, 2008-01-22 12:09
Governor Jon Corzine is not close to winning public support for his radical public toll concession plan, according to a new opinion poll. The poll conducted by Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind opinion polling outfit was conducted by telephone from Jan 14 thru 21 using a random sample of 927 registered voters. The poll has a sampling error of +/- 3 percentage points at the 95% level of confidence.240 words read more »
New Jersey toll increases proposed by Corzine were a political decision - REVIEW of T&R reports
Posted Mon, 2008-01-21 22:26Governor Corzine and his administration specified the New Jersey toll increases to be modeled by their traffic and revenue (T&R) consultants in a reversal of the normal relationship. 3095 words read more »
NJ Turnpike to secure borrowings of $37.6b with max 50% toll hikes 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022 + indexation
Posted Tue, 2008-01-08 12:18
Governor Jon Corzine is proposing creation of a state owned but independently controlled Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) to take over New Jersey's tollroads under a toll concession that would raise $37.6b - for paydown of state debt and transport improvements. The concession agreement would allow maximum increases of 50% in toll rates in 2010 and further 50% toll hikes in 2014, 2018, and 2022, plus inflation adjustments on an annual basis.
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New Jersey Gov represented as shady salesman "hocking the highways"
Posted Sun, 2007-12-02 10:51The Asbury Park Press, the leading newspaper on the Jersey shore has taken discussion of Governor Jon Corzine's protracted policymaking on the future of the state's tollroads to a new level of passion by portraying him on their frontpage as a sleazy salesman under the headline "Hocking the Highways". (see nearby) There was a subhead "Broken promises of New Jersey's toll roads".
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Corzine admin says NJ Pike monetization report incomplete & therefore confidential
Posted Mon, 2007-10-29 12:05The Corzine administration has filed a paper with a Superior Court in Trenton arguing that since their consultant studies on privatization and monetization of the New Jersey Turnpike are incomplete they are exempt from open records laws.
Two Republican state legislators filed a lawsuit demanding release of the consultant report after the state treasury
department rejected their requests for copies.
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Corzine administration ordered to court to explain why toll roads study being kept secret
Posted Thu, 2007-10-04 19:28
The Corzine administration is under a court order to appear before a
superior court judge Nov 16 to explain why it won't release an $800k
study by Steer Davies Gleave on various scenarios for monetizing or
privatizing tollroads in the state.
Republican members of the legislature lodged the lawsuit for the release of the document last month.
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New Jersey public just as much opposed to monetization of Turnpike as to privatization
Posted Tue, 2007-09-25 13:37
An opinion poll released today shows Governor Jon Corzine faces almost as much public skepticism about "monetization" of the New Jersey Turnpike as about privatization in the form of a longterm lease/concession. 349 words read more »
NJ Gov Corzine defers Turnpike reorganization to after Nov elections
Posted Fri, 2007-06-22 14:55
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine has deferred the detailing of proposals for reorganization of the New Jersey Turnpike until after the November elections, according to the Star-Ledger newspaper. 221 words read more »
NJ Gov Corzine recovering fast - to consider Turnpike future soon
Posted Sun, 2007-05-06 08:19The future of the New Jersey Turnpike Authority is the major item on the Governor's agenda, and his treasury secretary has said he will have detailed proposals before the end of the month.
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New Jersey Turnpike Authority dealt stinging rebuke by court in effort to override arbitration
Posted Tue, 2007-04-24 08:38
The state supreme court in New Jersey has issued a stinging rebuke to the New Jersey Turnpike Authority over a case where the tollster tried to override a labor arbitrator. The court ordered the Turnpike to reinstate Jason Glassey, 34, to a Garden State Parkway toll collector position from which he was fired in Nov 2003.
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NJ toll concession proposal delayed by Corzine crash - transport chief
Posted Wed, 2007-04-18 12:49223 words read more »
