{"id":4009,"date":"2008-11-24T09:24:35","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2008-11-24T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T14:24:35","slug":"problem_solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/problem_solved.html","title":{"rendered":"Problem Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/2008\/11\/23\/2008-11-23_tax_cars_to_save_mta_william_thompson_sa.html\">And no silly congestion pricing cameras to fuss with<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>City controller and mayoral wanna-be William Thompson Sunday proposed closing the MTA&#8217;s budget gap by hiking taxes for motorists.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s plan would stick all metro-area car owners with supersized-vehicle use taxes based on the weight of their car.<\/p>\n<p>The sliding-scale tax would be in addition to the sliding-scale, weight-based state registration fee they already pay every two years. That means about $200 extra for cars and $400 or more for heavyweights like SUVs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to assure that all those who benefit from a healthy transit system will pay their fair share,&#8221; said Thompson, noting that transit ridership reduces congestion.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson&#8217;s proposed tax would affect all 12 counties of the so-called Metropolitan Commuter Transportation District served by the MTA &#8212; and raise as much as $1.8 billion annually, he said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Metropolitan Transportation Authority has proposed closing its $1.2 billion budget gap by hiking fares 23% and slashing service.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And no silly congestion pricing cameras to fuss with: City controller and mayoral wanna-be William Thompson Sunday proposed closing the MTA&#8217;s budget gap by hiking taxes for motorists. Thompson&#8217;s plan would stick all metro-area car owners with supersized-vehicle use taxes based on the weight of their car. The sliding-scale tax would be in addition to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}