Maybe we are watching the birth of yet another Law..
No Driving while Web Browsing.. 
While Sam is there with the thruway authority announcing free internet service I wonder if he will say anything about the tolls? No, he won’t… While almost 6000 people are fighting to get rid of the tolls Sam and Iannello/Ward are fighting to keep them.
Empire Information Services: News Story
News from NYS Thruway Authority
For more information: Office of Public Affairs, 518-436-2983
MEDIA ADVISORY
ALBANY, NY — (02/28/2007; 1800)(EIS) — New York State Thruway Authority Executive Director Michael R. Fleischer will join Assemblyman Sam Hoyt (D-Buffalo, Grand Island) at a press conference for the activation of free Wireless Internet Service (Wi-Fi) at Thruway Travel Plazas today, Thursday, March 1, 2007, at 10 a.m. at the Angola Travel Plaza (directions below). The Angola Travel Plaza is located between Interchange 57A (Eden, Angola) and Interchange 58 (Silver Creek, Irving) on the Thruway. The Travel Plaza is accessible to eastbound and westbound traffic on I-90 at milepost 447. Members of the media, including photographers, are invited to attend.
If you have further questions regarding this press conference, please contact the Authority’s Office of Public Affairs at 518-436-2983. Directions: From the West: Take NYS Thruway to milepost 447 between Interchange 58 (Silver Creek, Irving) and Interchange 57A (Eden, Angola) and exit the system at the Angola Travel Plaza. From the East: Take NYS Thruway to milepost 447 between Interchange 57A (Eden, Angola) and Interchange 58 (Silver Creek, Irving) and exit the system at the Angola Travel Plaza.
4 users commented in " Hoyt and Thruway Authority announce free wireless "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI realize that paying a toll to go to your house is a pain, but dont residents of Grand Island pay a reduced toll? I thought it was something like $0.09 as opposed to $0.75 that everyone else pays? I could be mistaken.
the point is the traffic congestion and the promise of removing the tolls when everything was paid for in the 50’s.
They like to use the arguement that the tolls pay for the maintenance of the bridges but I have already proven we lose money on the tolls. It cost over 3 million a year to just pay for the toll takers. That equeals out to be over 25,000 cars a day just to pay the toll takers.
Have you read how much they make and how much they get in benefits? Free ezpass, tuition for 15 credit hours paid in advance 90%
Read the FOIL and everything else I have written. http://nogitolls.com
All well and good, but how much do you, as a resident of Grand Island, pay when you cross the bridge?
As for toll taker benefits, a friend of the family recently died of a rare lung disease caused by prolonged exposure to diesel fumes. While he wasnt a toll taker (he worked for customs), the same risks exist for toll takers. Shouldnt they get more than $7 per hour with no benefits?
Best thing to eliminate the health hazards is to eliminate the tolls across the country. Health hazard eliminated.
The job as a toll taker is worth at best 10 an hour. Get kids like yourself that need jobs to get through college. With a job like that pensions, tuition, free ezpass, sick days, vacations, etc…….. do not need to be paid by people who use the roads.
If tolls were needed to maintain bridges why isn’t there a toll at every bridge? Why is their no toll at the Skyway?
I pay 9 cents. The money is not the point.
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