# Thruway tolls increase in January

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**Created:** [December 19, 2007, 11:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thruway-tolls-increase-in-january/40515 "2007-12-19T11:12:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/thruway-tolls-increase-in-january/40515/9 "2007-12-19T12:05:02Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> That’s an easy one. They are an untouchable authority. AKA, they answer to no one. When the audit comes out and shows how out of touch their salaries and benefits are with the private sector and how they are wasting money left and right there is no one in the state that can force them to change anything. The governor can’t tell them to do something, he can’t even fire them.
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> Off the top of my head we have:  
> Thruway authority  
> Peace Bridge authority  
> Erie County Water authority  
> Niagara Frontier Transit authority  
> Power Authority
> 
> There are many, many more. All politically appointed, most for life, none answering to voters.
> 
> One of the many reasons NY continues to win awards year after year for being the most dysfunctional state government.

I hate how it works, it’s just like the dmv. the ladies who work there should all DIAF I think i’ve met like 2 nice ones.

The last time I was at the dmv the lady was on her phone for 5 MINUTES while i sat at her window…not a business call,but a personal one…i think with her husband.

It’s like WTF?! any other job she woulda been fired on the spot.

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