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Apr 4, 2021 07:48:09   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at my car and asked me what that thing was on my windshield. I said it was an EZPass for paying tolls automatically. He said, "Oh, we don't have tolls in North Carolina." He didn't have to have a license plate on his trailer, either.

I got an email from EZPass this morning informing me that the tolls on NY City bridges will be increasing next week. When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.

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Apr 4, 2021 07:53:04   #
Ollieboy
 
Yeah yeah yeah and bread was 15 cents in 1960.

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Apr 4, 2021 08:02:18   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Gasman57 wrote:
Yeah yeah yeah and bread was 15 cents in 1960.

Everything goes up to cover increased expenses,
that went up to cover increased expenses,
that ...

Amazing how that works.

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Apr 4, 2021 08:09:01   #
ecobin Loc: Paoli, PA
 
I've had a NYS E-Z pass since it was started. Now I use it mostly in PA and NJ - the charges do add up. Prior to Covid (and hopefully soon again), I used the Verrazano several times per year to visit my younger daughter in RI and my mother & sister in Nassau County. Sometimes the GW is faster, especially when there's road work on the Belt parkway but the GW is always backed-up.
Can I borrow your EZ-pass, Jerry?

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Apr 4, 2021 08:15:56   #
DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
...I got an email from EZPass this morning informing me that the tolls on NY City bridges will be increasing next week. When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.


So don't go to or through NYC.

Many years ago we travelled to Delaware from Massachusetts and back on holidays. The first year we went through NYC (no EZPass in those days). After that we went through Newburgh because the tolls were significantly cheaper. Avoided the NJ Turnpike and Garden State Parkway by using back roads. Added a bit of time to the trip but decreased the intensity of the traffic so it was worth it.

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Apr 4, 2021 16:51:55   #
Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at my car and asked me what that thing was on my windshield. I said it was an EZPass for paying tolls automatically. He said, "Oh, we don't have tolls in North Carolina." He didn't have to have a license plate on his trailer, either.

I got an email from EZPass this morning informing me that the tolls on NY City bridges will be increasing next week. When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)


And we now have tolls in N.C. also

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Apr 4, 2021 16:52:46   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
Tappanzee.


(Always the Tappanzee.)

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Apr 4, 2021 16:59:23   #
TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
Tom DePuy wrote:
And we now have tolls in N.C. also


And trailers must have tags.

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Apr 4, 2021 17:22:30   #
Tom DePuy Loc: Waxhaw, N.C.
 
TriX wrote:
And trailers must have tags.


Yupp, that 2

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Apr 4, 2021 21:18:49   #
krashdragon
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at my car and asked me what that thing was on my windshield. I said it was an EZPass for paying tolls automatically. He said, "Oh, we don't have tolls in North Carolina." He didn't have to have a license plate on his trailer, either.

I got an email from EZPass this morning informing me that the tolls on NY City bridges will be increasing next week. When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)


If you think that's bad, try the tolls for 18 wheelers..
Round trip from Baltimore to Kearney, NJ was $178.

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Apr 4, 2021 21:20:26   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 
krashdragon wrote:
If you think that's bad, try the tolls for 18 wheelers..
Round trip from Baltimore to Kearney, NJ was $178.


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Apr 4, 2021 21:51:09   #
sleeper54
 
jerryc41 wrote:
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... When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.

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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...

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Apr 5, 2021 06:06:22   #
Peterfiore Loc: Where DR goes south
 
Longshadow wrote:
Everything goes up to cover increased expenses,
that went up to cover increased expenses,
that ...

Amazing how that works.


That's the model corporations use for Tax increases.

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Apr 5, 2021 07:02:46   #
traderjohn Loc: New York City
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at my car and asked me what that thing was on my windshield. I said it was an EZPass for paying tolls automatically. He said, "Oh, we don't have tolls in North Carolina." He didn't have to have a license plate on his trailer, either.

I got an email from EZPass this morning informing me that the tolls on NY City bridges will be increasing next week. When I started driving in 1960, the toll on the Throgs Neck Bridge was $0.25. It will be increasing from $6.55 to $8.36 each way, and that's the discounted price for using EZPass. The cash price is over $10 each way. The Verrazano Bridge will cost you $19 round trip, cash.
Years ago, I visited someone in NC. He looked at ... (show quote)

"Car Toll Rates - MTAhttps://new.mta.info › tolls-by-vehicle › cars
Feb 19, 2021 — Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge · E-ZPass: $6.12 · Tolls by Mail: $9.50 · Staten Island Resident E–ZPass - $2.75 · Staten Island Resident E-Token"

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Apr 5, 2021 07:46:56   #
Cookie223 Loc: New Jersey
 
Longshadow wrote:
Tappanzee.


(Always the Tappanzee.)


👍🏻

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