{"id":4706,"date":"2009-04-16T08:56:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-16T13:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2009-04-16T08:56:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-16T13:56:18","slug":"i_did_it_for_the_tollz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/04\/i_did_it_for_the_tollz.html","title":{"rendered":"I Did It For The Tollz"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tolling all 13 East River and Harlem River bridges<\/a> sounds like a great way to make a lot of money, but the loopholes sound problematic:<\/p>\n

Gov. Paterson is again on board with a plan that would toll 13 now-free East and Harlem River bridges at the cost of a subway ride for all drivers — but the latest twist would exempt those crossing the spans for business or medical purposes, officials said today. <\/p>\n

The new plan meant to bail out the MTA from a budget deficit also calls for a 5 to 10 percent tax increase on all non-city residents who use long-term garage parking spaces in Manhattan and a 50-cent “dropoff” surcharge on every taxi ride, according to former MTA chief Richard Ravitch, the plan’s author.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1) So does using the bridges for “business” mean that delivery trucks will be exempt? If so, will they pass along their savings from less traffic congestion to customers?<\/p>\n

2) Wow, you’re going to put a toll on that dopey little University Heights Bridge<\/a>, too? For $2, I’d want something iconic, like the Brooklyn Bridge<\/a> or even the Queensboro<\/a>!<\/p>\n

3) Won’t tolling the Washington Bridge<\/a> increase congestion like crazy on already-really-congested I-95?<\/p>\n

4) I’m sure there’s more, but why not just make things easy and call for a vote on legalizing gay marriage<\/a> instead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tolling all 13 East River and Harlem River bridges sounds like a great way to make a lot of money, but the loopholes sound problematic: Gov. Paterson is again on board with a plan that would toll 13 now-free East and Harlem River bridges at the cost of a subway ride for all drivers — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-someone_way_smarter_than_us_probably_already_worked_this_one_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","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=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4707,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}