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 know I could have better phrased “like food” to something like “agricultural crops”…you get the point.
Anyway, I’m begging people to watch “End of Suburbia” and “Who Killed the Electric Car” and will put a self-imposed 3 month moratorium on mentioning it after this post! Please read up on world peak oil.
fsrg, how on earth could you say we will never run out of a finite natural resource?? It doesn’t replenish itself like trees, food, etc. That’s a very bizarre thing to say.
fsrq…we will NEVER run out of oil??? Why not? Is there someone planting oil trees somewhere?? You need to study up on the depletion numbers and reserve numbers around the world. We WILL be back to higher oil prices after 2010 for truly fundamental reasons.
sam – of course people can be discouraged from driving their cars – did you see what $4.50 gas did, do you see what $30 a day parking does, or traffic….sure people love their cars but if it costs more to use people will use it less – its called economics – and despite all ouir bailouts – it still controls.
As to how will the subway handle it – you have a point, but with a dedicated revenue stream and even more usage – you will be able to have $ ultimatley for service enhancements…..its not like the roads arent full either – if we are to (eventually)have a growing city (either pop or economically) you have more travel – should we dedicate resources to expanding road travel or mass-transit?
BTW Biff we will NEVER run out of oil (nor are/were supplies ever really that constrained to justify the recent price spike) BUT a floor tax on oil is also a no brainer and until it is enacted – you will know that this country and its leaders are really not at all serious about removing USAs dependence on oil.
z, my point was not that there are no toll bridges in NYC. Rather, that one can currently travel between boroughs (minus SI) withough paying tolls. Traveling from Manhattan to the Bronx there is the 145th St and University Heights Bridge, among others operated toll free by the NYC DOT.
I just read that the amount of money that the city foregoes in not taxing mortgages on co-ops is about $170 MM. Close that loophole. That’s a great place to start. just do it. Now.
“I think you will find it is very difficult to discourage Americans to drive”
Well, if that’s true, I say bring on the tolls. Double. We get more money that way, and nobody is inconvenienced.
even for the homosexually fashionably challenged like myself.
*rob*
One’s bag should ALWAYS match one’s belt.