Deadbeat drivers left nearly $350 million in tolls unpaid in 2025 — more than double the annual total from three years earlier, a new MTA analysis estimated.
The staggering figure comes after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority adopted a “cashless” system — with officials now looking for the state to pass legislation that would take extreme measures in some cases, like allow the agency to put liens on the property or bank accounts of scofflaws.
“Preliminary data for 2025 indicate that upward trend has continued, and interventions adopted in 2024 have not gone far enough to mitigate impacts of persistent toll violators,” the analysis states, which was first reported by Streetsblog…