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TOLL ROADS DEBATE * USA - Truckers begin mapping out cheaper alternate routes
"Right now, my tolls cost me $130 round-trip... I can't take any more than that"
Newark,NJ,USA -The Star-Ledger, by JOE MALINCONICO &TOM FEENEY -January 13, 2008: -- Stephen DeFern would haul his produce to California instead of New Jersey. Horace Evans would take his frozen chickens to the Midwest. Melvin Celestine would still bring his foam insulation here, but he might use Route 295 instead of the Turnpike. Jeffrey Campbell, who hauls steel from Queens, will have to use the Turnpike no matter how much it costs... "Right now, my tolls cost me $130 round-trip," said Evans, who has been hauling frozen chickens to New Jersey from North Carolina for more than three decades. "I can't take any more than that"... At lunch hour last Wednesday, the day after Gov. Jon Corzine announced he hopes to cure the state's money troubles by asking drivers to swallow an unprecedented series of toll hikes, the Thomas Edison service area on the Turnpike in Woodbridge was full of trucks whose drivers had already started to consider how they might avoid paying them... The Corzine administration expects the toll hikes to chase some trucks and passenger cars onto other roads, Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri said. During a briefing about the governor's plan they expected a "diversion" rate of more than 10 percent... New Jersey's last big toll hike on the Turnpike came in 1991. Rates for trucks doubled that year, and for cars, they increased by 70 percent. Vehicles left the highway in droves...
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