The toll cordon zone must extend into the FDR and West Side Highway to reduce the incentive for drivers to utilize them for circumnavigation, adding to pollution in densely populated communites. Currently, many drivers jam up Bronx highways and local streets to utilize the free Third Ave/Willis Ave Bridges in an attempt to dodge tolls on the Tri-boro and Henry Hudson bridges and access the FDR/West Side Highway. This excess congestion creates a dangerous situation where collisions are commonplace, pollution has reached dangerous levels, and the populations most affected are also the most socioeconomically vulnerable. These drivers should utilize higher capacity options and avoid the core of the city entirely.
A variable tolling scheme is most effective at discouraging driving into the city's core. The costs to enter via automobile should be most expensive during times of peak congestion, high levels of air pollution and emergency situations. An app and online website could keep up to date information on the current cost along with recently implemented digital signage along highways.
Actually, there's a substantial population surrounding commuter rail stations within NYC. Commuter rail in NYC should be priced equal to the subway and buses, with transfers included.I would propose that immediate funding for Select Bus Service supersede Express buses.
Most New Yorkers (including the middle class) do not drive into the Manhattan CBD district on a regular basis.The middle class instead suffers from slow buses, pollution, and increased prevalence of collisions due to congestion.Tolls would reduce congestion in the core and along all paths into the core.
I fully support the efforts to increase tolls into Manhattan while simultaneously lowering the toll burden of the outer boroughs. Before moving to Brooklyn, we lived in Far Rockaway, a part of Queens that is difficult to access without a car. However, I had to be very thoughtful of when I could afford to use my car as I had to go over the Cross Bay Bridge, and subsequently pay a toll, anytime I wanted to drive to the rest of Queens, a borough with a comparatively less dense public transport network.
I think it is important that people who live in places were driving is more of a necessity have limited impediments to do so, whereas people who live in work in Manhattan take advantage of the myriad of transportation links on the island.
At the same time, it is crucial to the continued development of NYC that public transportation density be expanded so that cars are not as necessary in the outer boroughs.
The toll cordon zone must extend into the FDR and West Side Highway to reduce the incentive for drivers to utilize them for circumnavigation, adding to pollution in densely populated communites. Currently, many drivers jam up Bronx highways and local streets to utilize the free Third Ave/Willis Ave Bridges in an attempt to dodge tolls on the Tri-boro and Henry Hudson bridges and access the FDR/West Side Highway. This excess congestion creates a dangerous situation where collisions are commonplace, pollution has reached dangerous levels, and the populations most affected are also the most socioeconomically vulnerable. These drivers should utilize higher capacity options and avoid the core of the city entirely.
A variable tolling scheme is most effective at discouraging driving into the city's core. The costs to enter via automobile should be most expensive during times of peak congestion, high levels of air pollution and emergency situations. An app and online website could keep up to date information on the current cost along with recently implemented digital signage along highways.
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Actually, there's a substantial population surrounding commuter rail stations within NYC. Commuter rail in NYC should be priced equal to the subway and buses, with transfers included.I would propose that immediate funding for Select Bus Service supersede Express buses.
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Most New Yorkers (including the middle class) do not drive into the Manhattan CBD district on a regular basis.The middle class instead suffers from slow buses, pollution, and increased prevalence of collisions due to congestion.Tolls would reduce congestion in the core and along all paths into the core.
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I fully support the efforts to increase tolls into Manhattan while simultaneously lowering the toll burden of the outer boroughs. Before moving to Brooklyn, we lived in Far Rockaway, a part of Queens that is difficult to access without a car. However, I had to be very thoughtful of when I could afford to use my car as I had to go over the Cross Bay Bridge, and subsequently pay a toll, anytime I wanted to drive to the rest of Queens, a borough with a comparatively less dense public transport network.
I think it is important that people who live in places were driving is more of a necessity have limited impediments to do so, whereas people who live in work in Manhattan take advantage of the myriad of transportation links on the island.
At the same time, it is crucial to the continued development of NYC that public transportation density be expanded so that cars are not as necessary in the outer boroughs.
View this comment in the discussion thread