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The Florida Department of Transportation announced a rate increase plan for cars and trucks on most state toll roads starting next year, followed by what could be automatic increases each year after that.

Tolls for trucks entering New York City from New Jersey will more than double over the next five years, a larger increase than originally proposed.

Cash fares will rise 10% on the Pennsylvania turnpike in 2012, but tolls will remain the same for E-ZPass users.

The Maryland Transportation Authority on June 2 proposed significantly increasing tolls over the next two years on seven highways, bridges and tunnels in the state.

The Maryland Transportation Authority will consider toll increases at its June 2 meeting that could double rates by 2013 for trucks on seven of the state’s eight tolled facilities.

Rhode Island state officials are pushing ahead with a plan to explore putting tolls on Interstate 95, the state’s top transportation official said, despite U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s disapproval of the idea.

Truckers crossing the Delaware River from New Jersey into Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges upstream of Trenton, N.J., could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as July 1.

When tolling starts sometime this spring on the State Route 520 Bridge across Lake Washington west from Seattle, trucks could pay from $2.40 to $14.50 each way to cross.

Truck tolls will rise on six of the seven major bridges and tunnels operated within New York City by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, beginning Dec. 30.