{"id":6074,"date":"2017-12-13T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/?p=6074"},"modified":"2017-12-13T13:26:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T18:26:34","slug":"toll-hike-public-meeting-tonight-12132017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/2017\/12\/13\/toll-hike-public-meeting-tonight-12132017\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll Hike Public Meeting Tonight 12\/13\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a public hearing to gather more feedback on a plan to increase turnpike toll rates across New Hampshire TONIGHT (Wednesday December 13) at Manchester City Hall, Aldermanic Chambers, 1 City Hall Plaza  at 7:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>Written comments should be sent to William E. Watson, 7 Hazen Drive, PO Box 483, Concord, NH 03302-0483, or by email to Bill.Watson@dot.nh.gov. Comments must be received by 4 p.m. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Under the proposal, the rates in Hooksett and Bedford would increase from $1 to $1.50, Dover and Rochester tolls would increase from 75 cents to $1, and Hampton tolls would go from $2 to $2.50. It would be the first system-wide increase in a decade, and would raise money for highway projects.<\/p>\n<p>There may not have been a lot of truth to the reason for the hikes, according to this article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/2ATurQx\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Union Leader<\/a>, which reports that the money will be spent for the pedestrian\/bike crossing anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a public hearing to gather more feedback on a plan to increase turnpike toll rates across New Hampshire TONIGHT (Wednesday December 13) at Manchester City Hall, Aldermanic Chambers, 1 City Hall Plaza at 7:00 PM. Written comments should be sent to William E. Watson, 7 Hazen Drive, PO Box 483, Concord, NH [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,105,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles-nh","category-executive-council-watch","category-taxes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6075,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6074\/revisions\/6075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnht.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}