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There are already tolls for people who live outside of New York and commute in: the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, the Bayonn
by kccqzy 2y ago
There are already tolls for people who live outside of New York and commute in: the Holland Tunnel, the Lincoln Tunnel, the George Washington Bridge, the Bayonne Bridge… This congestion pricing is more for people who live in other parts of New York (like the Upper West Side, or Queens) to commute to the most congested part of New York.
By your logic, the administration should have made Lincoln Tunnel and Holland Tunnel free.
- AnthonyMouse 2y ago> By your logic, the administration should have made Lincoln Tunnel and Holland Tunnel free. That is correct, they should do that, and eliminate all other tolls on interstate roads.
- kccqzy 2y agoThen why did the administration not do that? Because they cancelled congestion pricing with reasons different from yours.
- AnthonyMouse 2y agoThere are several problems with tolls (privacy invasive, collections infrastructure eats an unreasonable proportion of the revenue, etc.) that should cause them to never be used, but the relevant one is putting a disproportionate burden on travelers from outside the jurisdiction. Tolls that only pay for road maintenance and aren't intended to deter travel might not do this (even if they're still net-negative overall), so there is a stronger case to be made that they should be allowed, but the purpose of congestion pricing is explicitly to deter travel from people who for any reason can't use mass transit, and those people are disproportionately from outside the jurisdiction. If that was their actual reason they would be doing exactly this. Though they should still get rid of the other tolls.