Adding Tolls to Brooklyn Bridges?
Marty Markowitz was just on the Brian Lehrer show arguing against the Ravitch Commission’s proposal to add tolls to the three bridges in Brooklyn as well as the Queensboro Bridge as part of its solution to the MTA deficits. (Rosie Perez just called in agreeing with Marty too.) Are you in favor of adding the…
Marty Markowitz was just on the Brian Lehrer show arguing against the Ravitch Commission’s proposal to add tolls to the three bridges in Brooklyn as well as the Queensboro Bridge as part of its solution to the MTA deficits. (Rosie Perez just called in agreeing with Marty too.) Are you in favor of adding the tolls?
I have actually AF and I don’t enjoy it.
My issue is that for some reason NYC parents have this irrational sense of entitlement. No one forces you to have kids and no one forces you to live in a congested metropolis.
I’m really not trying to be nasty but you are free to leave at anytime. If you’d like to stay then suck it up and shut it up.
ennuiator…I think there should be tolls for strollers too.
okay if everybody who has kids also has a car, then the answer is simple: Kid Tolls!
i for one would like the MTA to have to open its books for realz before we start bending over backwards to generate money for them. but since i have no kids and no car, i’m also for the bridge toll because it doesn’t directly affect me. gotta love nonparticipatory democracy!
I totally get why people with kids get cars. My sis just visited with her 3 year old and 7 year old. We took the train twice over along weekend, not easy with the 3 year old. Even the 7 year old added time to our trip and I remember helping her with the stroller when he was little, daunting to say the least. I don’t think I’d leave my neighborhood if I had kids.
It is actually completely possible to have children in this city and NOT own a car.
In addition to not needing a car, you can also manage perfectly well without a SUV-sized stroller.
If I said, I’m against tolls on bridges, I’d be arguing with you know who all day.
But frankly, as someone, who live in Brooklyn and owns a car and I confess to driving it often – gas is cheap these days you know 🙂
I think there should be a toll. I would gladly pay it. I have the luxury of owning a car in a city where one is not needed. I want to drive it, I’ll pay for it.
“Spoken like a true childless person, Dave. And, Biff”
I first read this as – Spoken like a true childish person, Dave, and Biff.
Until, other posters questioned the child issue, and I had to go back.
Just proves, I just scan these threads.
I think the politicians are hoping that the non-car-owning public will want to punish drivers by supporting new tolls on the East River bridges. Unfortunately the new tolls will not be used to fix the bridges or the trains or anything like that, they will be used to plug the holes in the city’s operating budget. There has been talk about tolling the bridge for probably a 100 years. Eventually, the politicians will get their tolls (the toll collecting apparatus alone will cost hundreds of millions to install, and then re-install, and then toss out when it is found to be hopeless, and then re-installed). I find it bewildering that New Yorkers could possibly think that any new tax will do anything to improve anything. I drive and I don’t care if they place tolls on the bridges. It is just the cost of doing business I will pass it on to my clients. Poorer people who rely on cars of course are screwed. but then, what else is new?
I just don’t see how they would be able to do it without some facsimile of a toll booth installation. And the money, wouldn’t that go to the Port Authority?
Maybe that was a bold assumption, (and this will betray my position of privilege so bombs away) but I don’t know anyone with kids in Brooklyn who doesn’t have a car–and use it frequently. In my experience the people who are quick to tell you to just take the subway have not done it with a couple of small children in tow.