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..." 5% toll hike went into effect Sunday along the New York State thruway. The Grand Island totals are not affected by Sunday's hike. The fifteen cent toll at transit road will remain unchanged as well on the WB -- lifeline is Grand Island toll fighter Russ Thompson. Happy new year --"...
..." million dollars for road improvements -- strikes me as -- that the Grand Island bridges are slated to get improvements from the increase in tolls. Yet there are exempt from the toll increase does it make"...
..." incur. Well you think about what you're doing right now -- the Grand Island bridges they're actually borrowing. Up to fifty or fifty million dollars to redo the work on the redo the bridges on assault"...
..." face the people west New York that -- Actually people all of New York State that paid the taxes they pay all the transportation taxes. And on top of that whole. And they are again all that money to consent from the federal government EP eight we all pay eighteen point four -- in gasoline tax for every gallon of gas but we get. All that money -- of the federal transportation system. The new York state Department of Transportation applies -- that money last year one point four billion dollars. They build for the thruway authority highway late models but we"...
..." because Albany's taking -- the surpluses from almost all the parties in New York State. And putting it into the general help bail out the budget yeah once again. That money does not belong in the general"...
..." there's another toll hike that's -- latest for next year. It would Grand Island be part of that."...
..." believe next year it I hope we don't have this conversation about Grand Island next year. I think the media is -- re submit DL 190 told bill with which takes the thruway authority out of the 190s. And gives it to the state DOT which we were to the Grand Island -- He's three submitting they go back and especially the 890. So we can get death -- built to the floor and"...
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Rus Thompson, Anti Toll activist
the man behind hte fight against the Grand Island Bridge Tolls talks of an overall thruway toll increase
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