http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/09/extended_peak_periods_shrink_d.html
Extended peak hours for bridge, tunnel toll hikes shock E-ZPass customers
Published: Monday, September 19, 2011, 7:35 PM Updated: Monday, September 19, 2011, 8:20 PM
By Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger
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The Port Authority says the hike will help pay for a 10-year, $25 billion capital plan that includes redeveloping the World Trade Center, raising the Bayonne Bridge, replacing the Goethals, and overhauling the Pulaski Skyway, a plan projected to generate 131,000 jobs.
Peak hours were extended for both weekday and weekend travelers, making it more difficult for E-ZPass customers to receive the off-peak-hour discount.
Under the plan, revenues are to rise by $100 million in the first year and are projected to increase to $900 million by the 2015. Based on past experience, Zupan said the expanded peak hours aren’t likely to change commuting habits, and most people will simply forego the discount.
“The problem is, people have to go about their business and can’t change their schedules to save a buck,” or two, Zupan said.
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This is absurd.
Build, or rather rebuild a pale substitute of the WTC, on the backs of the NJ commuters?
Christie should get this hung around his neck like the Florio toilet paper tax.
He had veto power.
We should be screaming like stuck pigs.
Or, shorn sheeple!
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