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On 8/2/2005 13:51, Andy Levy wrote:
| On 8/2/05, Jason Bleazard <dml@bleazard.net> wrote:
|
|>>Cost of tolls: $58.30
|>
|>Yikes! And here I thought I was getting gouged. The NY Thruway recently
|>jacked up their tolls, and they charge extra for trailers. $1.90 each
|>way. The one that really cheezed me was the I-190 going in to Buffalo. I
|>think the regular price is $0.75, and when we pulled up he said it would
|>be $1.25 because of the trailer. Fair enough, so I handed him the money.
|>Then he looked at my money like it was made out of two-month-old mystery
|>meat fridge leftovers (no, I didn't give him Canadian currency, I know
|>better than that), and he announced that he had changed him mind and would
|>now require $2.75 due to the *height* of the trailer. Being not in a mood
|>to block traffic while arguing with this idiot, I just forked it over. He
|>reminded me very much of the troll in that fairy tale who sits and guards
|>the bridge.
|
|
| There is no height regulation on trailers on the Thruway. For travel
| trailers, at worst there's a per-axle fee.
|
| The Thruway toll increase cheesed a LOT of people. Local trucking
| companies were talking about it nailing them for over $2000 per year.
| It now costs me nearly $2/day in tolls just to drive to/from work, and
| I've got the EZ-Pass discount and commuter plan (10% discount on
| normal rates, plus the first 30 miles is free).
|
| Think that's bad? If I remember later I'll dig up my statement and
| post what it cost me to drive the PA Turnpike from Scranton to Philly
| a couple weeks ago.
|
$5.25 each way to take the PA Pike (I-476) between Scranton and Philly.
About $5 each way to go visit my parents (or for them to visit us) on I-90.
My daily commuting tolls: $1.44 (forgot that by taking some back roads I
shave off 10 miles on the highway, which worked out to 17 cents in tolls).
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