Imagine driving down the street in the town you work in and you have to pay $9 for driving down the public street. Your not on a highway and did not use a bridge and tunnel to get to work. Welcome to New York City in 2025. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority which runs the trains and buses as well as some of the bridges and tunnels in the city with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams is charging people to for the privilege to drive on Manhattan Island! This brain trust claim that the fuds will help with transportation projects and reduce congestion, an idea borrowed from London. For drivers coming in from New Jersey, you get a $3 discount. After paying $16to cross the Lincoln or Holland Tunnel! If you cross the George Washington Bridge then proceed south of 60th Street, no $3 discount!
The MTA claims the money raised will help pay for MTA operating costs and failing infrastructure. This is your government at work. Revenues from buses and trains decrease, you look to screw the people not using mass transit, not look for a way to get people back on the subway or ways to reduce costs! Since the pandemic, more people are working from home therefore do not need the subways and bus. In that case, reduce the number of subway trains and buses being used. Next; find out why people are not riding the system. Price? Crime? Reliability? Bums?
If the city and state want people not drive in Manhattan, all they have to do is keep what they are doing and the people and businesses will leave Gotham!
Technology changes things. People used to travel via horse drawn carriage, then the locomotive then the electric powered train, now, they don’t need to travel to work. And the politicians only know how to bleed us dry!
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