Sentences with phrase «zee toll»

He said he doubted there would be any impact on the Newburgh - Beacon Bridge if the Tappan Zee toll fluctuated, given the distance between them.

Cuomo, in explaining why no new Tappan Zee toll estimates have been made, has publicly suggested larger political and financial concerns must be considered in calculating tolls.

For years, Tappan Zee toll dollars have made up one - third of the revenue for the New York State Thruway, which reaches to the Canadian border, far from Rockland County.

Because current Tappan Zee tolls subsidize upstate roads, some revenue source will have to make up for that subsidy.

While the Governor's promise of dialogue on tolls in 2015 is a positive sign, I remain disappointed that Rockland County residents have been offered little information to date on exactly how much Tappan Zee tolls will actually rise.

Not exact matches

Governor Andrew Cuomo appears to be looking to channel Moses by refurbishing area airports, rebuilding the Kosciuszko and Tappan Zee Bridges, and instituting cashless tolls, even holding a musical light show at the new iteration of the Kosciusko.

Nearly $ 8 million in mail - issued tolls remained unpaid as of September for trips over the former Tappan Zee Bridge, records show.

So, attention has turned to cashless tolls, they've been put on the Tappen Zee Bridge and other areas downstate.

The New York Times, for example, reported that Cuomo plans to fund the new Tappan Zee Bridge with $ 3 billion in bonds backed by toll revenue and $ 2.2 billion with loans from union pension funds and the federal government.

The governor said that after 2020, toll revenue from the Thruway system will help pay for the nearly $ 4 billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, the recently renamed Gov. Mario M. Cuomo Bridge.

Cuomo's budget director says upstate Thruway tolls will not be necessary to build and operate the new Tappan Zee Bridge.

In terms of transportation, Cuomo's budget plan will include $ 1.3 billion to keep tolls the same, as well as to pay for repairs, maintenance and part of the new Tappan Zee Bridge, according to his office.

«We also propose using $ 1.2 billion of the settlement funds to protect Thruway toll payers for a year for the next year and to help finance the Tappan Zee Bridge.»

Cuomo has been reluctant to divulge details on how the tolls on the Tappan Zee Bridge will be affected after the multibillion dollar project to replace the over three mile long bridge is completed.

Young responded that continued uncertainty over the Tappan Zee bridge financing has raised concerns about a system - wide toll increase prior to 2020 to help fund that downstate bridge project.

TARRYTOWN — Cashless tolling is a concept introduced to the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2016 for those people who do not have E-ZPass.

The administration has yet to say how high tolls will go to pay for construction of a new $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge.

Since a cashless toll system was put in place on the Tappan Zee Bridge, the amount of uncollected tolls is reaching into the millions, according to a new study done by the New York State Thruway Authority.

Plans for a Tappan Zee Bridge without collectors have been out there for a while, but Tuesday's update comes about a month after the state Department of Motor Vehicles announced a regulation that will allow the state to suspend the registrations of motorists who skip out on five tolls within an 18 - month period.

State lawmakers are considering budget proposals from Gov. Andrew Cuomo to use $ 1 billion from settlements with financial institutions to help the authority pay for a budget - busting replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge and for toll tax credits.

ALBANY — There are no specific plans to bring a cashless toll system to the upstate portions of the Thruway even though it now operates at the Tappan Zee Bridge between Rockland and Westchester counties, a Cuomo administration official told lawmakers Wednesday.

ALBANY — The Thruway Authority is circulating a proposal to borrow $ 850 million to support the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge, bond documents show, without detailing any plans for toll increases that are all but certain to come after 2020.

Also, our reporters convene at the roundtable to further discuss Gov. Cuomo's attorney general record editing and recent headlines including the proposed Tappan Zee bridge project and toll hike.

Candidates were also asked whether they would raise tolls on the Thruway or on the new Tappan Zee Bridge, which is under currently under construction.

SOUTH NYACK, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Construction of the new Tappan Zee Bridge could force tolls to be moved from the Westchester County side of the Hudson River to the Rockland County side, but some worry it may be a permanent move.

April 23, 2016 - An overhead gantry is prepared for the activation of the Tappan Zee's cashless tolling system.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- Before jacking up truck tolls 45 percent on the New York State Thruway and raising the toll at the Tappan Zee Bridge to pay for a new bridge, how about cracking down on toll cheats?

Earlier this year, 2 On Your Side's Jeff Preval questioned Governor Cuomo about installing cashless tolls upstate along the Thruway to Western New York, cashless tolls are already used downstate on the Tappen Zee Bridge.

Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, worried that keeping tolls artificially low would only undermine attempts to establish bus rapid transit in the Tappan Zee corridor — another project of uncertain status in the proposed budget.

Moving the Thruway's portfolio to another entity has been talked about for years: It was floated amid talk of possible Thruway toll hikes, and bobbed to the surface again as the Thruway Authority began the construction of the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement, which has an estimated cost of $ 4 billion.

Amnesty was announced earlier this month and was set to begin in February, as drivers complain the cashless tolling system across the new bridge, which went live in April 2016 when the Tappan Zee Bridge was still in use, has not been working as advertised.

The first cashless tolling point was implemented on the Tappan Zee Bridge in 2016.

The current toll on the existing Tappan Zee Bridge that spans the Hudson River connecting Westchester and Rockland counties is $ 5.

With that system in place, the Tappan Zee Bridge became the state's first cashless tolling location.

Other lawmakers responded with some sarcasm, noting the replacement for the Tappan Zee will likely include a hefty toll.

Cuomo wants the state to send $ 1.3 billion to the Thruway Authority to prevent toll increases and help pay for the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project.

There are no specific plans to bring a cashless toll system to the upstate portions of the Thruway even though it now operates at the Tappan Zee Bridge between Rockland and Westchester counties, a Cuomo administration official told lawmakers.

The Thruway Authority is circulating a proposal to borrow $ 850 million to support the replacement Tappan Zee Bridge, bond documents show, without detailing any plans for toll increases that are all but certain to come after 2020.

The firm found the amnesty program would allow the state to recoup some of the $ 8 million in uncollected tolls, allowing users who cross the replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge, known as the Gov. Mario Cuomo Bridge, to waive fees for violations if unpaid tolls are settled by Feb. 26.

Last year, the state's multi-billion windfall was divided up, with money sent to the Tappan Zee Bridge replacement project, an infusion of cash for the competitive economic development project proposals and money to avoid toll hikes on the state Thruway Authority.

The Thruway Authority — and upstate toll hikes — won't subsidize the soon - to - open replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge connecting Westchester and Rockland counties, Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday insisted.

The ongoing rebuilding of the Thruway's Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson has a $ 4 billion dollar price tag, that, without an infusion of cash, could result in a steep rise in bridge tolls.

So you have to wonder: Is now the time to be looking at rebates on tolls — rebates that will average just $ 97 a motorist — when the state still has no plan in place to fully pay for the $ 3.98 billion replacement of the Tappan Zee Bridge in the lower Hudson Valley?

It's called a «cashless tolling» system, and New York already has it in place at the former Tappan Zee Bridge between Rockland and Westchester counties.

TARRYTOWN — A new plan to enhance the state's ability to prosecute and extract fees from toll evaders was announced Wednesday by State Sen. David Carlucci (D, Nanuet) at the Tarrytown toll plaza of the Tappan Zee Bridge.

«There has been no upstate toll revenue used to support the construction and financing of the new bridge, and no upstate toll revenue will be necessary to cover any remaining costs as the Tappan Zee currently provides significant funding for the entire Thruway system,» she said.

The Empire Center posted online: «Talk of even studying a new L.I. Sound crossing is especially questionable given the governor's failure to detail how he intends to pay for the one big mega-project he actually has under construction,» referring to the $ 3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge project, which is well underway but still has questions about how it will be paid for and how much the toll will be for Westchester residents.

The Citizens Budget Commission released a policy brief saying that tolls on the $ 4 billion replacement for the Tappan Zee (Mario M. Cuomo) may have to double to pay for it, in a proposed increase from $ 5 to $ 10.70.

Cuomo, too, has embraced projects form the mundane to the major, especially the replacement project of the Tappan Zee Bridge spanning the Hudson River, now underway after years of delay (there's still the question of, exactly, how the bridge is being paid for and what tolls will ultimately cost).

-- $ 1.3 billion for the Thruway Authority, with roughly $ 900 million earmarked for the Tappan Zee Bridge and $ 400 million to help the authority reorganize its capital plan and prevent a toll hike.