It also lays out multiple scenarios for the toll, from a low of $9 in the peak hour to a high of $23 (more on why later), meaning the charge could come in higher or lower than London’s current congestion charge of £15 (about $18).
#Midtown tunnel toll drivers#
The massive document - roughly three feet high in three nifty binders - compiles every possible effect that the traffic toll can have on things like daily vehicle miles traveled in and around the Manhattan central business district, transit ridership, the lives of low-income drivers and taxi drivers in the CBD and air quality around nearby highways. That’s the key - and, frankly, expected - finding of the MTA’s voluminous environmental assessment for what it calls the Central Business District Tolling Program, which was released this morning at 6 a.m. “The entrances are constantly closed or overcrowded.After one failed attempt, a successful two-year street fight, two and a half years of federal shenanigans, public comment from residents of 28 area counties and five native American tribes, hundreds of time-sucking questions from Washington bureaucrats, lots of political slow-walking in Albany and enough traffic modeling to crash a supercomputer, the MTA and its congestion pricing partners have finally determined: yes congestion pricing will raise money for transit and reduce traffic in Midtown and, most important, not really have much of an adverse impact on anyone. The service doesn’t get any better,” Karen Sklar griped as she waited to enter the Queens Midtown Tunnel in Manhattan on Sunday. Kennedy Bridge (formerly the Triborough), Throgs Neck Bridge and Queens Midtown Tunnel - all now at $9.50, or $6.12 with E-ZPass. Other major city crossings seeing a tall increase were the Robert F. “I’m also advocating for Brooklyn residents, because no one should be paying $19 to drive over a bridge to go to work.” It’s part of what government should be doing,” she said. Staten Island is absolutely deserving of the credit. It is RIDICULOUS that the discounts offered to Staten Island residents have NEVER been offered to Brooklyn residents,” Councilman Justin Brannan, a Democrat from Bay Ridge, tweeted on Sunday.īut Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, a Republican representing both sides of the bridge, defended the Forgotten Borough’s special treatment. “Last time I checked, a bridge has two sides. The crossing’s toll also had lawmakers feeling a little cross, too. My boyfriend will have to come to Brooklyn if he wants to see me.” “It is too much and unfair to Brooklyn residents. When I go to Staten Island now, it’s over $12,” said Bay Ridge resident Caitlyn Kelly, 21, who has an E-ZPass. “My boyfriend lives on Staten Island and pays like $5 with E-ZPass. That imbalance was already taking a toll on some Brooklynites. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature decided at the last minute to pony up $6 million a year to keep the tolls low for folks living on Staten Island. That cost was slated to jump to nearly $6, but Gov. Under the new toll, drivers with E-ZPass will be charged $12.24 - up from $11.52.īut Staten Island residents were spared the hike and will still pay only $5.50 under a rebate program. It previously cost $17 to take the Verrazzano from Brooklyn to Staten Island. “My God - $19 without E-ZPass! I mean, you’re going to Staten Island! It doesn’t seem worth it,” fumed Gloria Padron, who lives on the Brooklyn side of the bridge in Bay Ridge. The one-way non-E-ZPass toll now tops the $18 it takes to cross Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel - which is 23 miles long. The Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge is now the nation’s most expensive bridge to cross after an MTA toll hike ratcheting up the rate to $19 went into effect Sunday. to Harlem, the stories behind iconic NYC landmarks revealed MTA cops nab record number of bridge and tunnel toll cheats in a single dayĬity correction officer jumps to death from Verrazzano Bridge: sourcesĬop with $15K in unpaid tolls, fees tried to dodge trouble by flashing NYPD badgeįrom Wall St.
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