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Last Updated on Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:06 Written by rslcpol Thursday, 29 May 2008 09:06
From the Associated Press:
Board members of the state’s Thruway Authority yesterday agreed to stop using the free E-ZPass vehicle tags that exempt them from paying tolls on New York’s highways.
The decision came after a push by State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo to end such travel perks — a decades-long tradition at many public agencies.
Cuomo also demanded that members of the board of New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority do the same.
The Daily News revealed on Tuesday that about 60 past and present MTA board members — many of them multimillionaires — had gotten the free tags for life. Among them is former MTA Chairman Peter S. Kalikow, who owns dozens of cars and reportedly has eight tags.