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Patrick hints at hike in gas tax
Boston :: MA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Governor Deval Patrick signed a budget yesterday that imposes more than $1 billion in additional taxes on Massachusetts residents and visitors, most of it through the first increase in the state sales tax in 33 years, even as he declined to rule out a...
Tags: sales tax, Deval Patrick, University of Massachusetts, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, patrick signing, reduce spending, toll hike
Patrick Administration parses stimulus bill, highlights uncertainty
Boston :: MA :: USA | 7 months ago
Credibility Estimates.” “Assumptions.” “Uncertainty.” “Subject to change.” The words and phrases were used Thursday by Patrick administration officials to describe, or attempt to, how much, when and for what programs and projects portions of a $787 billion federal...
Tags: Deval Patrick, federal stimulus, Massachusetts Turnpike, Patrick Administration, Deval L. Patrick, toll hike, Senate, Therese Murray, house speaker, stimulus money
Demand for food stamps in Mass. soars
Boston :: MA :: USA | 8 months ago
Credibility Welfare officials say the demand for food stamps in Massachusetts jumped 20 percent last year, straining the system and trying the patience of some residents applying for the benefit. There are now about 600,000 Massachusetts residents getting food stamps...
Tags: Massachusetts, Metropolitan Boston, gas tax, ll pick, food stamps, toll hike, governor patrick, turnpike authority
Mass. Pike schedules toll discussion, not vote
Boston :: MA :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority may be delaying a planned toll increase. A vote scheduled for Thursday on whether to double some polls has been converted into a discussion only at a meeting of the authority’s board. Pike staff won’t explain the change,...
Tags: toll, toll increase, Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Deval Patrick, toll hike
Mass Pike eyes major hikes
Sturbridge :: MA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility ass Pike chiefs are mulling plans to hike tunnel tolls to $8.50 while increasing some road tolls to $2.25 to help raise critical funds for the cash-strapped agency. “It’s highway robbery,” said toll foe Sen. Robert L. Hedlund (R-Weymouth) of the Massachusetts...
Golden Gate Bridge toll to rise $1
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Drivers will have to pay another dollar to cross the Golden Gate Bridge starting Tuesday. The toll increase approved in July means automobile drivers paying cash will owe $6 instead of $5. Drivers using the electronic payment system FasTrak will pay $5...
Tags: golden gate bridge, toll, instead, toll increase, toll hike, gate bridge, golden gate, bridge tolls
Golden Gate toll hike expected to pass
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Golden Gate Bridge District on Friday morning is expected to give final approval to a plan that will hike tolls on the span by a dollar. The district's finance committee on Thursday agreed to increase the toll to $6 for cash paying motorists and $5...
Tags: golden gate bridge, toll, toll hike, toll increase, tolls hike, FasTrak
Golden Gate Bridge Toll Hike
The bridge that was supposed to be toll free when it was built is about to have its toll increased yet another dollar. Motorists currently pay $5 cash or $4 with FasTrak but that may change on September 1st. The increase would go towards easing the...
Tags: golden gate bridge, toll, toll hike, toll increase, san francisco
Bridge panel backs $1 toll hike
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Motorists, who now pay a $5 cash and $4 FasTrak toll all hours of the day, would pay $1 more beginning Sept. 1 to help erase the district's five-year, $91 million deficit. The district's Finance-Auditing Committee agreed to increase the toll, though no...
Tags: toll, toll increase, toll hike, Golden Gate Bridge
Commuters spoke out against toll hike
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Golden Gate Bridge District's Board of Directors got an earful on Wednesday night over not one, but two proposed toll hikes...With gas prices already through the roof, Golden Gate commuters are not happy. It could be as much as a $2 toll hike, which...
Tags: toll, toll hike, toll increase, golden gate bridge, tolls hike, golden gate
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