1.   Panama has told clients that no new toll hikes are in store in the immediate future.

2.   Swift is engaged in a dirty fight to oust two Massachusetts Turnpike Authority board members over a politically unpopular toll hike.

3.   That plan would transfer control of the Artery and harbor tunnels to the Turnpike Authority, which would then raise buckets of cash for the project through toll hikes.

4.   A possible toll hike for the New York Thruway has been abandoned by state officials after heavy criticism from Gov. George Pataki and state leaders.

5.   Bruno, Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Comptroller H. Carl McCall had all come out against the toll hikes after the previously unannounced plan became public.

6.   Bruno reiterated his opposition to the toll hike Monday and said he would fight them legislatively if the board adopted the increases this spring.

7.   Bruno, Pataki, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and state Comptroller H. Carl McCoy had all come out against the toll hikes after the previously unannounced plan became public.

8.   He said under the present economic climate, the bridge users should not be burdened by a toll hike.

9.   It called on Pataki to ask the Thruway Authority to reexamine its projected toll hike and to find other ways to fund improvements on the roadway.

10.   Toll hikes would be tied to increases in a national construction cost index.