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To: LindyBill who wrote (210742)	7/4/2007 5:50:47 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 794012

The implication is that higher tolls is a bad thing. That's not true. It means greater value is being delivered. It means competition will be developed. Where profits are low, the thing being done is probably not worth doing. With huge roading profits, more roads will be built to encourage people to drive more and spend more money. More tolls are better. People who don't want to pay will take a bus, share transport, travel less distance by moving closer to work, etc. Those who don't mind paying enjoy nice roading. I love taking the toll highway over the hills from Los Angeles to San Diego. It's a big, swishy, smooth, fast, safe and beautiful route and costs just a few dollars. The maelstrom down lower is rough, noisy, dirty, dangerous [flying debris and vehicles], crowded, slow, visually unpleasant [though it makes a change and different things are viewable near the freeway] and not so good. Mqurice

To: LindyBill who wrote (210742)	7/5/2007 3:50:56 AM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 794012

Those bridges into or out of nyc were always expensive. I find it hard to believe any relationship to their increases and ez-pass. It could be cost of maintenance rising much faster, we do see many states considering selling their toll roads for quick cash and avoid the costly maintenance of roads like pa. and n.j. turnpike. ez-pass still has to fed bucks up front so i believe those communiting into and out of nyc certainly are aware of the cost of these tolls and have heart failure on every increase. i remember back in 70's my first experience to nyc bridge/tunnel toll system. I took out a small travel advance to work in the area for a week. the first day i almost spent it on tolls. Even back then it was not .25 toll rather $2. and at times it was both ways. Oh, it was during the gas crisis too, so i had a bigger problem trying to keep full for short trips.