E-ZPass customers pay $9.50, while those paying cash must cough up $12.\u00a0 (Each toll will rise another $3 by 2015.)<\/p>\n
Police officers working for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey \u2013 the agency which owns and operates the bridge and six other crossings \u2013 are not amused.\u00a0 They claim the practice of picking up strangers to pay a cheaper toll is dangerous to drivers.\u00a0 To make the point, the cops hand out tickets for hundreds of dollars a pop.\u00a0 (But they do not, mind you, patrol the bus stops for dangerous looking characters.)<\/p>\n
“In order to pad their pensions and lifestyle, they’re taking bread out of our children’s mouths,” says Ms. Javier.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to the Journal, \u201cWith extensive overtime, some toll collectors make more than $100,000, while salaries for several officers working at the bridge topped $200,000 last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Public employees gouging taxpayers to pad their compensation packages?<\/p>\n
Fuggedaboutit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Creative carpooling or rogue riders? Today, the Wall Street Journal details how commuters over the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York are picking up passengers at bus stops near the bridge in order to pay a reduced toll. E-ZPass customers pay $9.50, while those paying cash must cough up $12.\u00a0 (Each toll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56,3082,410,560,3622,2377,71,3623],"class_list":["post-14623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-government","tag-local","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-york","tag-port-authority","tag-public-employee","tag-taxes","tag-toll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14623"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14629,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14623\/revisions\/14629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}