1.   Although Levy and Mihos have not concurred on several matters since returning to their board seats, the two men were united Wednesday on the toll increase.

2.   A few New Jersey Democrats assailed the proposed toll increases Friday.

3.   A spokesman for the Automobile Club of New York, Peter Crescenti, said his organization could support a toll increase to maintain the highway.

4.   He said repeatedly he would not take stands on issues like toll increases for bridges and tunnels until he had studied them further.

5.   If those dates are realistic, Levy said, a delay in putting the toll increase into effect is quite possible.

6.   Indeed, advocates for drivers accustomed to jeering at toll increases greeted the proposal with some enthusiasm.

7.   It left out one key aspect of the proposal he had announced earlier in the week, toll increases.

8.   Legislators from towns west of Boston are attempting to rally their colleagues to block toll increases.

9.   Meanwhile, sources told The Boston Globe still more Turnpike and harbor tunnel toll increases may be announced to raise cash.

10.   Rae Hutton, a spokeswoman for DiFrancesco, said that it appeared Whitman had foreclosed any action by DiFrancesco by approving the toll increases.