Thruway Authority postpones vote on toll hike
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| Â Â The state Thruway Authority has put off voting on a 10 percent toll hike while state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli looks at whether it’s necessary.
    The vote was supposed to be Monday but is now being put off until some time in December, a spokeswoman said today.    DiNapoli said he’s been asked by several elected officials and others to look at whether the hike is financially necessary. He said it will start immediately, but he had no estimate of when it might be finished.   Tolls were initially supposed to be lifted from the roadway, which runs from New York City north to Albany, then west to Buffalo and then south to the Pennsylvania border, when construction bonds were paid off more than a decade ago. But the authority decided to keep the tolls to help pay for other state operations, including toll-free state highways, as well as maintenance costs on the toll road.  The tolls were last raised two years ago. |
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
