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	<title>The Capricious Commuter &#187; tolls</title>
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	<description>Getting around the Bay Area with Denis Cuff and the Queen of the Road</description>
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		<title>MTC considers $1 million contract for move as senator prepares bill to suspend action on move</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/12/19/mtc-considers-1-million-contract-for-move-as-senator-prepares-bill-to-suspend-action-on-move/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/12/19/mtc-considers-1-million-contract-for-move-as-senator-prepares-bill-to-suspend-action-on-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A week after a state senator announced plans for a bill to block further work on the Metropolitan Transportation Commission&#8217;s planned move from Oakland to San Francisco, the agency is calling a special meeting for Wednesday to hire an architectural firm to remodel the new headquarters building in San Francisco. The $1 million architectural contract is the latest source of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>License to cheat: Trucker resorts to James Bond trick trying to avoid NY bridge toll</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/15/license-to-cheat-trucker-resorts-to-james-bond-trick-trying-to-avoid-ny-bridge-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2011/10/15/license-to-cheat-trucker-resorts-to-james-bond-trick-trying-to-avoid-ny-bridge-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems everywhere with bridge tolls has toll cheats. No wonder then that a trucker made headlines with his ruse to hook up a cable to flip over his license plate over to avoid an electronically collected $65 toll on the George Washington Bridge entering New York. Read about it here. The Virginia trucker failed to get away with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who took biggest hit from 6-day Bay Bridge closure?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/11/06/who-took-biggest-hit-from-6-day-bay-bridge-closure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can&#8217;t put a price on the aggravation of being stuck in traffic. That comment from a Bay Area transportation official become the theme of my story today about the toll on the region from a six-day closure of the Bay Bridge for emergency repairs. And much as that statement is true, we at the newspaper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A chance to chime in before bridge tolls are raised</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/27/a-chance-to-chime-in-before-bridge-tolls-are-raised/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/27/a-chance-to-chime-in-before-bridge-tolls-are-raised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bay Bridge]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area bridge operators have scheduled three public hearings on a proposed toll increase on seven state bridges. While bridge operators appear determined to raise tolls, they have many details to figure out. Members of the Bay Area Toll Authority are wrestling with how to revamp tolls to do two new things: collecting tolls from car pools during rush hour periods on all seven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will the toll on bridge drivers be too big a toll?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/14/will-the-toll-on-bridge-drivers-be-too-big-a-toll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who take car pools across seven Bay Area bridges may be in for an unpleasant change next year: the end of free rides for car pools during rush-hour periods. And on the Bay Bridge, regular drivers not in car pools also may in for a shock: higher tolls during peak commute periods than at other times. Proposed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toll shock: Will Bay Area bridge tolls go up?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/toll-shock-will-bay-area-bridge-tolls-go-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/10/13/toll-shock-will-bay-area-bridge-tolls-go-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bay Area bridge operators disclosed a year ago they were considering raising tolls on seven state-owned bridges by $1 &#8211; up to $5 per car. On Wednesday morning, a toll authority committee will get down to the details of when and how to do it. The Bay Area Toll Authority Overnight Committee meets at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the MetroCenter, 101 Eighth Street, Oakland to consider a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toll road bill moving along</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/07/16/toll-road-bill-moving-along/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/07/16/toll-road-bill-moving-along/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:22:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill allowing the creation of an 800-mile network of carpool/toll lanes in the Bay Area has cleared its first stop in the California Senate. Assembly Bill 744 by Assembly Majority Leader Alberto Torrico (D-Newark), passed today on a 6-1 vote of the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, and will next go to the Senate Appropiations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paying to save time on toll lanes</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/04/29/paying-to-save-time-on-toll-lanes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/04/29/paying-to-save-time-on-toll-lanes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Would you pay to save time driving the freeways? Would paying a toll to use an express lane seem less painful if you knew it was helping ease freeway traffic congestion for the masses?. Bay Area residents are getting closer to finding out. A plan to create an 800-mile network of express lanes open to carpools for free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Group seeks to derail BART to Warm Springs project</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/10/group-seeks-to-derail-bart-to-warm-springs-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2009/03/10/group-seeks-to-derail-bart-to-warm-springs-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 03:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lawsuit challenging funding for BART&#8217;s planned rail extension to the Warm Springs district in Fremont is the latest friction in a long-running dispute about how to expand public transit in the Bay Area.  On one side, some transit rebels say expanding BART is the wrong way to go, and wrong thing to do with sales taxes and toll money. &#8220;Too many people have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should the free ride end for car pools on Bay Area bridges?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/17/should-the-free-ride-end-for-car-pools-on-bay-area-bridges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/transportation/2008/12/17/should-the-free-ride-end-for-car-pools-on-bay-area-bridges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 05:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dcuff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Car pooling has worked so well on Bay Area bridges that bridge operators are considering ending the free rides for car pool users during weekday rush hours. I can hear the rumble of protest brewing among car pool users: &#8220;Hey government, we took car pools like you asked, so why penalize us by ending the free ride?&#8221; Isn&#8217;t that like water districts raising water rates in a [...]]]></description>
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