What? Every bridge and tunnel into NYC is tolled there is no free alternative. As are interstates in the North East interstates built with and maintained with Federal money and tolled by the states. DFW tolls the inside lanes of Ih35 and is adding toll lanes to 75 taking over two existing free lanes just like they did on 35 both 100% paid for by taxpayers. You are dead wrong you ,1 have to have a free alternative no you don’t, and two there are many MANY places that toll tax funded and paid off roads. It’s the states that toll them not the feds and it is a states right to toll them if they want too.
Flat out NYS wins this stupid pandering EO, if not then the other 49 states all lose rights and cutting off your nose in spite of your face is monumentally dumb. If you are a NYS citizen and ONLY a NYS then vote for representatives that will.change the law your governor signed. It’s mind blowing the hypocrisy. Like children running to daddy when mommy tells them something they don’t like.
Correct, there is no alternative because there was nothing there before the bridge or tunnel was built.
Taking a road and adding a toll without an alternate route is a restriction on movement.
They had a Federal exemption that just got revoked. What do they win? an exemption back?
If they were in the right, they wouldn't have bothered with the initial exemption.
The governorship races in New Jersey and Virginia, and the New York City mayoral race, occur in the year immediately after the Presidential election. These races are often seen as a referendum on the incumbent President's policies. I suspect Trump is thinking that a good GOP candidate who is at least an economic conservative (cultural conservatism is a hard sell in New Jersey), basically a loyal version of Chris Christie, could win the Garden State governor's office. More than just thumbing his nose at New York Governor Hochul and the corrupt Democratic regimes in the New York City Hall and Albany, this may be why he decided to interfere in the congestion pricing issue.
“What? Every bridge and tunnel into NYC is tolled there is no free alternative.”
That’s not true. At least, it wasn’t previously. There were/are free bridges from Long Island and the Bronx. It is true that all crossings of the Hudson River south of Albany are tolled though.