{"id":2468,"date":"2007-06-28T02:53:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T10:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/but_why_stop_at_16_charge_them_250_at_the_tolls_--_and_all_day_below_145th_street_--_and_well_be_able_to_supply_everyone_with_individual_jetpacks_so_that_anyone_can_zoom_anywhere_virtually_unim"},"modified":"2007-06-28T02:53:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T10:53:12","slug":"but_why_stop_at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/but_why_stop_at.html","title":{"rendered":"But Why Stop At $16? Charge Them $250 At The Tolls &#8212; And All Day Below 145th Street &#8212; And We&#8217;ll Be Able To Supply Everyone With Individual Jetpacks So That Anyone Can Zoom Anywhere Virtually Unimpeded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/57463\">now you&#8217;re getting greedy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>With the threat of a fare hike looming, a free subway system might seem like a distant fantasy for New York City straphangers.<\/p>\n<p>Some dreamers, however, are pushing to turn the concept into a reality that they say could stimulate the city&#8217;s economy and provide an incentive for more motorists to switch to mass transit.<\/p>\n<p>Charging motorists $16 to drive into most of Manhattan at all times &#8212; double the amount Mayor Bloomberg has proposed in his congestion pricing plan &#8212; and levying $16 tolls on all bridge and tunnel crossings could bring in $3.1 billion annually to subsidize a free mass transit system, the early results of a $100,000 study by a nonprofit group, the Institute for Rational Mobility, show. The MTA currently takes in about $1.96 billion in fares from the subway and buses, the study says, and it could save an estimated $360 million a year that it spends collecting those fares.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a Platonic ideal,&#8221; the chief attorney for the Straphangers Campaign, Gene Russianoff, said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, now you&#8217;re getting greedy: With the threat of a fare hike looming, a free subway system might seem like a distant fantasy for New York City straphangers. Some dreamers, however, are pushing to turn the concept into a reality that they say could stimulate the city&#8217;s economy and provide an incentive for more motorists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468","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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}