E-ZPass: So Successful, It Faces Financial Failure
16 July 2002 - 10:00am
A consortium of the Delaware Department of Transportation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey faces a deficit of $469 million by 2008.
"[T]he consortium selected a plan in which achievement of the goal of reducing traffic congestion and air pollution would result in financial failure," according to a 37-page report issued last week by the New Jersey Assembly's Transportation Committee.Financial failure is an understatement."
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E-ZPass: Free ride, but beware dead end
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 2002
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