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.
Moderator, hypothetically I imagine that the proposed toll system would speed up express buses. I imagine that if I had to drive into midtown from Brooklyn (as I did several times when I helped out with jewelry sales at a street fair and needed a van to transport the merchandise) it would be easier to find parking for said van. Hypothetically, I would imagine that it would be an easier choice to drive out to the Rockaways for a summer day on the beach.
Overall, my support of this proposal stems from the idea that when one has to drive one should not be penalized, but when public transit options are readily available one should use them first. A proposal that helps to fund public transit improvements while decreasing the cost of driving in areas without easily available transit links has my support.
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.
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Moderator, hypothetically I imagine that the proposed toll system would speed up express buses. I imagine that if I had to drive into midtown from Brooklyn (as I did several times when I helped out with jewelry sales at a street fair and needed a van to transport the merchandise) it would be easier to find parking for said van. Hypothetically, I would imagine that it would be an easier choice to drive out to the Rockaways for a summer day on the beach.
Overall, my support of this proposal stems from the idea that when one has to drive one should not be penalized, but when public transit options are readily available one should use them first. A proposal that helps to fund public transit improvements while decreasing the cost of driving in areas without easily available transit links has my support.
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