ericamukh's Endorsed Comments

Proposed Move NY Fair Plan Legislation | Closed Proposal

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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.