{"id":1737,"date":"2006-11-03T11:44:10","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/all_politics_is_disturbingly_frustratingly_local.html"},"modified":"2006-11-03T11:44:10","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T19:44:10","slug":"all_politics_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/all_politics_is.html","title":{"rendered":"All Politics Is Disturbingly, Frustratingly Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the rest of the country votes on weighty topics like energy policy, stem-cell research and, say, &#8220;Bush&#8217;s failed war in Iraq,&#8221; the key issue in the 13th Congressional District turns out to be . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/1162562440304030.xml&#038;coll=1\">a two-way toll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Three words changed the face of this year&#8217;s congressional campaign on Staten Island: Two-way toll.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Democrat Stephen Harrison floated the idea of eliminating the one-way toll on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge for residents of the 13th Congressional District, utilizing a high-speed toll collection system and spreading the levy to both sides of the span for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>His opponent, Republican Rep. Vito Fossella, pounced hard, deploring the two-way toll of yore that was scuttled through federal legislation in the 1980s to reduce traffic jams. The issue, he says, shows Harrison is out of touch with Island residents.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, an attorney from Brooklyn, refused to back off, insisting that new technology could cut traffic, pollution and freeloaders traveling in only one direction. He said that Fossella&#8217;s portrayal of his two-way toll plan without caveats &#8212; he wouldn&#8217;t do it without elimination of the toll for district residents, he says &#8212; is a distortion.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the rest of the country votes on weighty topics like energy policy, stem-cell research and, say, &#8220;Bush&#8217;s failed war in Iraq,&#8221; the key issue in the 13th Congressional District turns out to be . . . a two-way toll: Three words changed the face of this year&#8217;s congressional campaign on Staten Island: Two-way toll. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,6,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","category-staten_island","category-youre_kidding_right"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}