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Poll: Voters don’t like plan to increase tolls
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s initial proposal to dramatically increase tolls on the bridges into New York is an unpopular one with New Jersey’s voters, according to a poll released Thursday.
A Quinnipiac University poll showed registered voters disapprove of the plan to hike tolls between $4 and $7 for commuters by a margin of 54 to 41 percent. In addition, 54 percent of those surveyed blamed the port authority for the proposal, rather than the governors of New Jersey and New York, who appoint the authority members.
“Just about everyone in New Jersey has heard about the Port Authority’s toll proposals and they’re not popular,” said Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute. “Even in South Jersey, where there’s another Port Authority which controls toll bridges to Pennsylvania, voters are opposed.” (Staff, Gannett)
