New York officials are on the precipice of imposing massive new tolls to cut congestion in Manhattan following decades of explosive growth. There’s just one problem: New Jersey
That just changed. Asked about the issue last week, Murphy told members of a local chamber of commerce, “We're not going to relent if New Jersey commuters are discriminated against, period.” Then he made the threat about holding up business at the Port Authority, which oversees the region’s shipping terminals, major airports, the World Trade Center, an interstate subway system and most of the vehicular bridges and tunnels that link New York and New Jersey.
That means if a New Jersey commuter is paying $12.50 to cross a bridge or tunnel, Murphy argues all crossing tolls should be deducted from the new MTA toll. So, if the new congestion toll were $15 a day, a New Jersey commuter who crossed a bridge or tunnel would pay perhaps $2.50 more each day, rather than $15 more.
“Manhattan may be an island, but on affairs of interstate commerce it is not an island unto itself,” Pascrell said in a statement aimed at the MTA. “This isn’t about the election and it isn’t about the Covid formula,” the aide said. “New York’s greed there isn’t coloring our opinion of New York’s greed here.”
“There is a whole interstate running down the center of New Jersey that if we have to drive south, that’s the only way to go,” said Danny Pearlstein, policy and communications director at the Riders Alliance, a group that advocates on behalf of New York subway and bus riders.
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