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TOLL ROAD DEBATE * USA - Group has concerns about plan
Trenton,NJ,USA -The Cherry Hill Courier Post - (Cherry Hill,NJ), by TOM BALDWIN -January 10, 2008: -- The debate over the future of New Jersey's toll roads opened Wednesday, one day after Gov. Jon S. Corzine floated his ideas for scheduled toll hikes, and an advocacy group posed what it said were "serious concerns"... The less-than-year-old group, called Save Our AssetsNJ, presented Millburn lawyer Peter Humphreys, billed as a finance specialist... "We need to see all the details," he said of Corzine's plan to raise tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway, the Atlantic City Expressway and to turn State Highway 440 in Middlesex County into a toll road... Saying Corzine wanted to raise tolls by 50 percent every four years from 2010 to 2022, Humphreys said a $2 toll today would be $5.37 in 2014, $9.07 in 2018 and $15.31 by 2022... He also asked about the environmental and economic impacts if motorists avoid the toll roads and squeeze onto secondary roads, or if they quit patronizing strip malls along Route 440 to avoid paying to navigate the heretofore toll-free highway... Jeff Tittel of the Sierra Club environmental group said, "The biggest concern we have is the governor says we need to reduce our carbon footprint but we are going to widen three toll roads. . . . The idea of raising tolls is to encourage mass transit. Without a transportation alternative, you are going to end up with more pollution, more sprawl and more traffic"...
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