A couple of weeks ago, I drove into New York to pick up a childhood friend who had taken a bus into the city for a visit. By the time I'd driven us down to Barnegat, then back into Manhattan for her trip home, then left the city myself, I'd spent enough on tolls and crossings to take us out to dinner.  Sure, we have to pay for transportation. But the drive always leaves me with the same feeling of being squeezed simply for the privilege of sitting in traffic – and it could get worse. Last week, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey proposed raising tolls by $4 next month on the George…