| Comptroller: Thruway Authority doesn't need to raise tolls
Those potential toll increases are on top of a 10 percent increase for cash customers that started Jan. 6. That was approved in 2005. A final vote on the toll increases is expected in mid-April.
The increases would help fund $2.7 billion in improvements to Thruway roadways and bridges before 2011.
The higher tolls would raise about $375 million in the next four years.
Some details from the audit, according to the comptroller's office:
-- A full review of Thruway Authority operations are necessary to find additional savings.
-- The authority should defer $159 million all "non-essential projects," which include updates to the Thruway's toll booth system, physically separating E-ZPass and cash-paying customers and a completion of the connection between Interstate 84 and Interstate 87..
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