{"id":4179,"date":"2008-12-23T10:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4179"},"modified":"2008-12-23T10:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-23T15:03:39","slug":"de_facto_secession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/12\/de_facto_secession.html","title":{"rendered":"De Facto Secession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or at least involuntary isolation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When the cash toll at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge rose from $9 to $10 last March, many Staten Island drivers thought they had seen it all. <\/p>\n

But the sticker shock of the sawbuck pales in comparison to a toll hike as high as — get this — $14. <\/p>\n

That’s how much the round-trip toll could conceivably cost as part of the MTA’s proposed package of fare and toll hikes. <\/p>\n

The authority outlined a variety of options yesterday meant to achieve a projected revenue increase of up to 23 percent, to plug a $1.2 billion budget gap. <\/p>\n

Nothing is set in stone; rather, the proposed changes, including a $6.25 express bus fare, a $2.50 or $3 local bus or subway fare and severe service cuts, reflect the outside threshold of pain. <\/p>\n

Of the $14 toll threat, MTA spokesman Jeremy Soffin said, “Is it a possibility? It’s there, but it’s in the upper range. I don’t know where we’ll be in the end.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or at least involuntary isolation: When the cash toll at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge rose from $9 to $10 last March, many Staten Island drivers thought they had seen it all. But the sticker shock of the sawbuck pales in comparison to a toll hike as high as — get this — $14. That’s how much […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer_issues","category-staten_island","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179","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=4179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4180,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4179\/revisions\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}