It would introduce a toll on road freight, with the proceeds invested in public transport, including a high-speed rail link connecting London with the north of England.
JEREZ DE LA FRONTERA, SPAIN — La Línea de la Concepción, an Andalusian city that is the gateway to Gibraltar, is set to introduce a toll charge this month to not only help reduce environmental damage from road traffic but also replenish the town's coffers.
The Victoria pier in Colwyn Bay, so busy in 1936 that the council introduced a 2d toll "to prevent indiscriminate lounging", has been closed since 2008.
(In neighboring New Jersey, where the gas tax is the third-lowest in the country, Gov. Jon S. Corzine introduced a proposal last week to raise tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike, the Garden State Parkway and the Atlantic City Expressway as much as 700percentt by 2022).
Finally, introducing an electronic toll collection along the New Jersey Turnpike to reduce congestion was associated temporally and spatially with reductions in incidence of prematurity and low birth weight among mothers living near toll plazas (Currie 2009).
In February a Texas legislator introduced a bill to stop building on all new toll roads planned by the state Department of Transportation until September 2009.
Still, Mr. Zupan and Senator Sarlo said, it seems inevitable that the Port Authority will need to introduce a steep increase to the tolls for crossing the Hudson.
It will introduce a child allowance, cut road tolls and taxes on small businesses, raise unemployment benefits, support farmers' incomes and revamp a pension system that cannot keep up with an ageing population.
The opposition will urge the DPJ to abandon pledges to introduce a child-support allowance and eliminate toll-road fees.
With the advent of E-ZPass, numerous toll authorities, including the Port Authority, have introduced gateless toll plazas, rewarding E-ZPass users with shorter travel times.
ProgTrans, a transport consultancy, estimated in 2010 that if all European countries introduced the tolls suggested in a proposed 2008 EU directive, it would cost European businesses €34 billion ($45 billion) by 2030.
