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If transit group Move NY has its way, moving between boroughs via car will become dramatically more expensive. The group is pushing to revive its failed plan to charge a toll of $5.54 in each direction when crossing the Brooklyn, Manhattan and Williamsburg bridges. (The plan also calls for a toll on the Queensboro Bridge, as well as crossing 60th Street in Manhattan or taking the West Side Highway or FDR, and to lower tolls slightly where they already exist.) What do you think of the idea?

Transit Group Would Add Tolls to Four New York Bridges [NY Times]
Proposal to Add Tolls on Brooklyn, Manhattan, Williamsburg Bridges [Eagle]
Photo by Anne Holmes


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  1. “Before tolls are raised on the bridges to Manhattan, restore the toll on the Verrazano to 2-way to discourage NJ drivers from entering the city via Brooklyn.”

    Why would someone from NJ enter Manhattan via Brooklyn? The toll is the same, minus what maybe a dollar less on the turnpike, and you sure wouldn’t save any time in traffic.

  2. Junior Bush’s Great Recession accounted for a large portion of that.
    The conservative deficit hawks come out only for Democratic presidents.
    Other times we get guys like Dick Cheney telling us deficits don’t matter.

  3. The same reason why cabs and buses aren’t exempted from tolls on the Triboro (or RFK) bridge. Written in every authorizing resolution for toll bridges is a non-discrimination clause where all vehicles pay the same tolls. It prevents politicians from exempting and carving out certain classes of vehicles from tolls since they all use the bridge equally.

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