- Do you drive to work across the bridge? Hooray! Your commute from your house in Rockland with the big yard to the office park in Westchester will continue to be affordable … for you, at least.
- Do you drive across the bridge for shopping or socializing, or to get to a vacation home? Woo hoo! You will still be able to spend long hours driving to and from the mall parking lot. Enjoy your time off!
- Do you drive a truck across the bridge? All right! Your business will continue to make a profit, until gas prices get too high.
- Do you sell things in a mall or strip mall in Westchester or Rockland? Yowza! Your parking lots will still be full, and you may even recoup your investment.
- Are you a politician or bureaucrat representing the area? Yippee! Pandering opportunities galore!
- Do you take buses across the bridge, or in Westchester or Rockland? Not so good. People will continue to drive and to pressure their politicians for more roads and parking. Transit agencies will keep struggling for riders and subsidies.
- Do you sell things in a walkable village in Westchester or Rockland? Sorry! The downtown resurgence you bet on is still a long way off. Hope you've got plenty of seed money to burn through before your gastropub gets out of the red!
- Do you walk in Westchester or Rockland? Yeah, welp. The sidewalks, trails and density you need will continue to be neglected by elites who drive everywhere.
- Do you breathe in Westchester or Rockland? Whoops! Why don't you take a nice drive up to New Paltz and enjoy the fresh air up there?
- Do you take trains or buses in New York State? Oh, gee, sorry! We have no money for new transit. And look at that, we have no money to maintain the subways and buses you currently use. Wonder where all that money went?
- Do you pay taxes in New York State? Wow! Those services you used to get for your tax dollars, like schools and low college tuition? Sorry to tell you, but the state is broke! We just can't afford luxuries like that any more. It's a new era!
Sunday, October 26, 2014
What do low Tappan Zee Bridge tolls mean for you?
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The tolls on the new bridge are NOT going to be low. In fact, they are going to be so high that the traffic projections for volume are going to fall short and create problems for future projects. The Port Authority is having problems because they cannot borrow as cheaply or as much as before.
I hope you're right, Joel! If they're low enough, maybe we won't need to build the other span...
Cap'n: Is there even a chance a second span won't be built? Or are they being build simultaneously?
They are building one span first, putting all traffic on it, tearing down the old span, then building the 2nd one. So there is a possibility only one span will be built
Here's hoping for massively high tolls and dropping traffic.
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