{"id":4497,"date":"2009-02-23T09:07:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4497"},"modified":"2009-02-23T09:07:54","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T14:07:54","slug":"toll_revenues_down_albuterol_makers_hardest_hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/02\/toll_revenues_down_albuterol_makers_hardest_hit.html","title":{"rendered":"Toll Revenues Down; Albuterol Makers Hardest Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/02232009\/news\/regionalnews\/mta_in_le_traffic_jam_156514.htm\">this<\/a> means we can stop worrying about traffic congestion and asthma rates until at least the third quarter of 2009:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A traffic recession is triggering a precipitous drop at the MTA&#8217;s crossings, costing the cash-strapped agency a staggering $55 million a year in tolls, statistics show. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the last three months, we&#8217;ve seen a large drop. That period is when the economy got especially bad,&#8221; Dave Moretti, an executive with MTA Bridges and Tunnels, recently told an agency board committee. <\/p>\n<p>Even slumping gas prices aren&#8217;t helping, he added, calling the cheaper fuel &#8220;questionable as to how much of a stimulus it provides&#8221; in boosting traffic and tolls.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m hoping this means we can stop worrying about traffic congestion and asthma rates until at least the third quarter of 2009: A traffic recession is triggering a precipitous drop at the MTA&#8217;s crossings, costing the cash-strapped agency a staggering $55 million a year in tolls, statistics show. &#8220;In the last three months, we&#8217;ve seen [&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-4497","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\/4497","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=4497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4497\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}