Will Tolls Double on the Tappan Zee Bridge?

The Journal News/lohud.com has been trying for months to get answers out of the Thruway Authority about future tolls on that bridge across the Hudson River between Nyack and Tarrytown.

And last week they caught sight—maybe—of official thinking when they read a report in Crain’s New York Business from a recent conference. According to the report, Howard Milstein, chairman of the Thruway Authority, said tolls could go up to $9 or $10 though they “don’t know what the final numbers are.”

TJN reporters Theresa Juva-Brown and Khurram Saeed wrote, “His remark that tolls could double on the new crossing — which some experts have predicted — was a rare bit of information, considering that the federal government, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration and the state Thruway Authority have not publicly disclosed toll details.”

The two also cited Thruway Executive Director Thomas Madison’s subsequent statement that Milstein was referring to the project’s cost savings that will help mitigate toll increases and that it’s too early to tell what the tolls will be.

A task force will recommend the new pricing.

That task force was proposed in 2012 but has yet to be launched, Juva-Brown and Saeed pointed out.

“The Journal News since March has been seeking a host of project documents, including records containing future toll estimates on the Tappan Zee and Thruway,” as has the mass transit advocacy group Tri-State Transportation Campaign, they wrote.

Read their full article here on lohud.com.