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Someone just told me Verrazano toll will be $15 soon
Other bridges and tunnels will cost more to cross also
WTF?
One more thing about Verrazano does anyone remember toll rates by year approximately?
i remember it was about $7 or 8 in 2003
how much was it before? whats the cheapest you guy remember?
All tolls into Manhattan should be $100...except delivery trucks and commuter buses.
"Black Cars" should be $200.
Taxuicab rides should be $50 to enter with the first $40 going into the City treasury...earmarked for bike trails.
Its a rediculous unfair tax that im surprised has not been challenged.
Making folks pay into the general tax bucket just becuse the have to commute to another part of the city is very unfair.
The tolls are not used to pay for the bridge at all.
You can go 120 miles on the LIE and not pay a penny extra in tolls or money into the tax bucket. But go 1 mile across the bridge into the bronx and your tax burdeon just grew.
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Right now I pay about $9.60 to cross the VZB...I love my E-ZPass. Still, it just goes to show you how mismanaged the MTA is-- soon it'll be cheaper to cross the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel!
Don't you know that we have to subsidize those "poor" straphangers and their precious subways that we're not allowed to have in the affordable residential neighborhoods?
9 more years then bye-bye to the thievery that is NY's "public authorities".
I've always wondered with all the recent increases and what not.. where the hell is the money going?? Over the last couple of years they have been laying off cops, teachers, public service employees, etc. Closing down locations, reducing service hours, and on and on. YET they HAVE to keep raise the tolls, fares, taxes, you name it. All while cutting down spending. So where is all this money going?
Its a rediculous unfair tax that im surprised has not been challenged.
Making folks pay into the general tax bucket just becuse the have to commute to another part of the city is very unfair.
The tolls are not used to pay for the bridge at all.
You can go 120 miles on the LIE and not pay a penny extra in tolls or money into the tax bucket. But go 1 mile across the bridge into the bronx and your tax burdeon just grew.
NY and NJ's rape the drivers re-distribution plan is being challenged in the Federal Courts by AAA, with the support of Staten Island's Congressman Michael Grimm. A legislator from NJ is on board also. Apparently there is a federal law which states that tolls must be used ONLY for transportation projects with strict limits, a law that the Port Authority has obviously never followed.
Its about time. This is bull taxing people for traveling in one direction instead of another.
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