Summary
NYC’s congestion pricing program, launched Jan 5 after Biden administration approval, faces new threats from the Trump administration.
Governor Kathy Hochul vows to keep the toll scanners active, deeming Trump’s effort and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s order an attack on the city.
The MTA swiftly filed a legal complaint to uphold the $9 toll, citing reduced traffic and critical funding for mass transit.
Legal experts warn the Trump administration faces an uphill legal battle.
“You can’t take American taxpayers who paid for roads and block them out and say you can’t access this unless you pay additional money,” Duffy said in the administration’s defense.
New transportation secretary is not familiar with how tolls work, apparently.
Was about to post the same damn thing.
Toll roads piss me the hell off.
And yet, they’re absolutely critical for keeping public transportation networks (read: roads, highways, trains and busses) functional and operational. The big reason they want this toll gone is because it’ll re-cripple NYC, a “”“liberal stronghold”“” (read: major population center in a blue state) they’ve always hated.
Well if we can’t fund so many roads with taxpayer dollars, maybe we should have less roads and invest in reliable public transport.
We don’t have to live in a world paved over with impermeable surfaces that are only for our multiton death machines that help destroy the planet.
It’s a nice sentiment, but unfortunately we live in a world where public transit infra is scrutinized much harder than roadways. At least with toll roads the extra cost burden isn’t passed onto taxpayers who don’t drive.
I guess I’m saying, instead of building new toll roads, let’s use that money to start fixing it.
aren’t republicans all for small government, states rights?
why arent they protesting this incursion right now?
Oh, right. they stand for nothing.
When you stand for nothing, you fall for everything.
They seem to generally agree on hurting vulnerable people.
Route 90 aka Thruway aka The Highway for tri county residents was to be free after it was paid for. NY never turned the tolls off. Fix that for me Donny.
The first rule of acquisition: “Once you have their money, never give it back.”
Just look at the extra sales tax in Indianapolis, Indiana compared to the rest of the state. The stadium the tax was created to pay for has long since been paid for, retired, bulldozed and replaced.
That was a lie they told you.
They knew the tolls would stay on. Even if the plan at the time was to eventually turn them off.
Out here in San Diego, The Coronado Bay Bridge still has the toll booths from the 1960s. In the early 1990s they finished paying for the bridge, and lifetime maintenance, and haven’t collected a toll since.
And just like that, the wannabe emperor and the local naked guy on the street have something in common.
So the king claimed he “fixed something” and then actually nothing had been done?
Color me surprised
For someone not from New York, could somebody explain, as I still don’t understand it, why federal government has any say in this, and why trump admin even cares about it?
Basically the license plate and sticker readers are attached to highways. Highways are regulated at the federal level. But approvals were already given and the infrastructure is already in place. So right now the federal government would have to get a favorable court order and then show up themselves to take the infrastructure down. Because the state is just going to ignore him. Which because of the way federal/state powers work is something they can do to an extent.
As I understand it, the tolls are levied on land connected to the bridges and tunnels entering New York, which are managed by the federal government, not the city.
It doesn’t, really, although they could try suing. You can always try suing.
