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?
And what makes the most sense is to fire everyone in the MTA and rebuild it from ground up.
“what is the genesis of the mta’s budget woes?”
LOL…the UNIONs for one thing. The excellent management at the top, the other. Bankrupt…like the airlines, the steel industry, the auto industry, Amtrak and the postal system.
THL…agree with you totally on that one about the price to pay for the choice to have children. May sound selfish but its totally logical. And I pay their school taxes so I don’t want to hear anymore from them.
Congestion pricing makes far more sense than tolling the Brooklyn bridges.
Goldie, that’s exactly what it is but, how is that unfair?
There will be LESS traffic…..right now people switch to the free bridges rather then take the PA bridges and tolls, plus I am sure the payment system will be electronic thereby eliminating the need for toll plazas.
This is a no brainer in everyway…. the city needs a solid revenue source for the subways and what better source then the people who drive.
And then the Federal Govt should put in a oil tax to keep the price at a minimum $70 a barrel.
Whahhhh, whahhh, whahhhh! Not for nothing but what does having a kid have to do with anything? If you make the choice to raise your kids in NYC then you deal with all the good and bad that goes along with it. If it’s too much of a pain in the tush to use the trains and buses then get a car and pay for the tolls and parking or move to the burbs. Just stop with the whining.
Tolls or more tolls means fewer cars on the road and less traffic. So please yes, toll all these bridges.
They better go with a license-plate scanning solution if they do go ahead with this. As someone who lives near the enterance to the w’burg bridge, there is no room for gridlock there.
Never underestimate SS’s ability to through an illogical, political hack wrench into any of this.
Sheldon Silver.