Spitzer: We Reject Any Thruway Toll Increases
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- January
- 28
After just about every other politician has come out against toll increases on the state Thruway, Gov. Spitzer is voicing his opposition today after the state comptroller’s office yesterday called for no new toll increases.
“From the time the Thruway Authority put forward this latest round of proposed toll, increases we have refused to endorse them because of outstanding questions about their necessity,” Spitzer said in a statement.
“Based on the findings of an audit issued by the comptroller’s office, we reject any proposed toll increases. We support the Comptroller’s recommendations that the Authority undertake an in-depth review of spending, prioritize its capital budget, and review and justify its borrowing practices.”
Still, Spitzer didn’t say he would take the $80 million a year cost of running the state’s canal system off the Thruway Authority’s back, which the Thruway says is a main reason for proposed toll increases later this year and in 2009. Tolls already went up 10 percent for cash customers this month.
The state Assembly is holding a hearing tomorrow at 10 a.m. in Albany on the toll hikes.
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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. 
