NYC Bridge Tolls Going Up
Apr 5, 2021 11:01:56 #
Be glad your not moving around in that area in a class 8 semi, if delivering and picking up in the Jersey City, Newark or Bayonne area and then over into the 5 boroughs and back out the tolls can easily exceed $200.00 dollars a day.
Apr 5, 2021 11:13:01 #
Apr 5, 2021 11:53:50 #
Apr 5, 2021 12:01:44 #
vj62 wrote:
They're necessary to pay the Gov's legal fees.
And there we have it, what took so long.
Apr 5, 2021 12:22:45 #
sleeper54 wrote:
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Not to argue here (I can do that on Twitter or Evilbook) ...but...
For those eager/quick to blame this on inflation ...$.25 in 1960 has an inflation corrected value of $2.24 today.
Check it yourself ... https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Great resource, your tax dollars at work.
...tom...
Not to argue here (I can do that on Twitter or Evilbook) ...but...
For those eager/quick to blame this on inflation ...$.25 in 1960 has an inflation corrected value of $2.24 today.
Check it yourself ... https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm
Great resource, your tax dollars at work.
...tom...
I may be doing something wrong but I get $5.39.
Apr 5, 2021 13:17:41 #
clint f.
Loc: Priest Lake Idaho, Spokane Wa
In Spokane we had a bridge on Maple street with a $0.10 toll from the first car across. The promise by the politicians was that when the bridge was paid off they would eliminate the toll. In the mid 80’s they closed it down for a few weeks to tear down the toll booths. No more tolls. A two fer,
politicians kept their promise and the users paid for the bridge they used.
politicians kept their promise and the users paid for the bridge they used.
Apr 5, 2021 13:21:06 #
tomad
Loc: North Carolina
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)
We have quite a few toll roads in the Carolinas now. I have an EZ Pass token on my windshield.
Apr 5, 2021 13:46:33 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)
Wait till they raise the minimum wage to $15.00. Toll by any other name is just another tax.
Apr 5, 2021 14:41:09 #
dborengasser wrote:
I may be doing something wrong but I get $5.39.
You're doing something wrong if you're using the calculator in the link.
$5.39 in 2021 is like $0.61 in 1960.
Interesting that you can see that $5.39 was worth about $0.35 in 1930 but $0.40 in 1920 and $0.26 in 1933 (depth of the great depression).
The calculator only goes to 1914, when $5.39 was worth $0.20.
Apr 5, 2021 17:22:17 #
Jerry, Welcome to things to come..! I read an article that with the push for electric powered cars that there will be less state and federal fuel taxes collected thus there will be a need for a new way to tax users. The most popular of which is a tax on miles traveled. At first blush this may sound logical and perhaps even fair.
However...how will the mileage one travels be recorded? Will it be like golf where one keeps their own score? Will new data recorders be required? Will cars be tracked via GPS systems with the information given to the tax agency? Whatever it may be...it's coming our way.
However...how will the mileage one travels be recorded? Will it be like golf where one keeps their own score? Will new data recorders be required? Will cars be tracked via GPS systems with the information given to the tax agency? Whatever it may be...it's coming our way.
Apr 5, 2021 18:02:05 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
...how will the mileage one travels be recorded? Will it be like golf where one keeps their own score? Will new data recorders be required? Will cars be tracked via GPS systems with the information given to the tax agency? Whatever it may be...it's coming our way.
When I used my truck for business I had to report the mileage on my tax return. Maybe that will become a requirement for all vehicles.
If you sell a vehicle you have to report the mileage. So the State, at least, keeps some records.
The State may require you to report the mileage when you renew your plates.
If your state does safety inspections the mileage is one of the things reported. CT doesn't do safety inspections but they do emission tests (and collect mileage data).
So far it's all on the State. The feds may require some of those data eventually or they may just collect the data from the states.
More questions:
What happens when you travel in your car through another country? Are you going to owe mileage taxes there? Are they deductable from your US mileage? Are foreign cars subject to the tax when driving on US highways and how would we collect that?"
Apr 5, 2021 21:53:38 #
hookedupin2005
Loc: Northwestern New Mexico
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)
I'll stay out here in the wild west, were I don't pay any tolls, thank you very much.
Apr 5, 2021 22:54:07 #
OleMe
Loc: Montgomery Co., MD
NYC tolls, and, getting there: visiting relatives in Brooklyn is expensive and frustrating. It's not just tools buy hotel rates.
Going to Need England from the DC area, I've taken to driving thru Pennsylvania. A bit no longer BUT no tolls until one gets to the Hudson River. Relative is getting a house in the Catskills. I'll do the same thru PA, crossing into NY at the Delaware Water Gap. Longer but just as fast - no NJ / NY traffic delays.
Going to Need England from the DC area, I've taken to driving thru Pennsylvania. A bit no longer BUT no tolls until one gets to the Hudson River. Relative is getting a house in the Catskills. I'll do the same thru PA, crossing into NY at the Delaware Water Gap. Longer but just as fast - no NJ / NY traffic delays.
Apr 6, 2021 00:11:25 #
Apr 6, 2021 00:29:25 #
jerryc41 wrote:
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Popular Science says that flying Taxis are right around the corner.
Boris
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