Gov. Hochul announces reduction of congestion toll pricing to $9
Hochul’s botch of the toll to drive into core Manhattan is so epic, you must wonder: Is she She now wants to start collecting cash from drivers entering Manhattan below 60th Street on Jan. 5.
She’s made superficially good changes: The $15 toll car toll is now $9, and the 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. overnight toll is $2.25, not $3.75.Hochul, Adams offer Trump a bogus olive branch — seeking not peace, just cashplans to charge New Jersey drivers a toll.pay a hefty toll to enter Manhattan — and much of the money goes toward subsidizing mass transit along the same route.The E-ZPass toll to come through Jersey tunnels to the West Side is $13.38 — $2 extra during rush hours.
These Jersey tolls collect an annual surplus, above the cost of maintaining the tunnels, of $100 million — money that pays for PATH and bus transit to Manhattan. In other words, Jersey drivers are already doing their part, and more, to fund subways and buses to New York City.congestion pricing program in the world — not London, which charges from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.; not Stockholm, 6 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. — levies an overnight fee, for the obvious reason that there levying a fee overnight isn’t just principle. It’s also politics: Allowing people to drive in for free at, say, 6 a.m.
to support it, to shut up the transit advocates who launched an ad campaign against her in recent weeks.it to be bad — allowing the New Jersey lawsuit or another outside force to delay it again, past Inauguration Day. Michael GoodwinWinter storm to bring first widespread cold snap ahead of Thanksgiving week travel
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