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.
Yeah yeah yeah and bread was 15 cents in 1960.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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And we now have tolls in N.C. also
Tappanzee.
(Always the Tappanzee.)
TriX
Loc: Raleigh, NC
Tom DePuy wrote:
And we now have tolls in N.C. also
And trailers must have tags.
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.
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If you think that's bad, try the tolls for 18 wheelers..
Round trip from Baltimore to Kearney, NJ was $178.
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.htmGreat resource, your tax dollars at work.
...tom...
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.
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.
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"Car Toll Rates - MTA
https://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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