Tolls to pay for Hudson Tunnel project
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njspotlight.comPosted Sep 21, 2021, 5:39 PM UTC
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njspotlight.comI feel like the funding for this should come from the Hudson River crossings but I guess those are port authority properties so the funding would be coming from both NY/NJ so I guess this makes sense.
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I think the argument towards toll funding is sound. We’re trying to encourage people to take mass transit and drive less. Ergo, hike fees on toll roads instead of mass transit users.
With gas taxes already unable to keep up with infrastructure costs and the increasing electrification of cars, toll costs are likely to become more common and higher.
I suppose there’s always the other option of: lEt ThE fReE mArKeT dEcIdE.
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The tolls were raised on the parkway to fund the tunnel and never lowered when Christie cancelled it. Maybe they should look to where all that money went.
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Christie took the money and he used it to expand highways in south jersey
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Ugh . . . Didn't they just raise the tolls only a year ago?
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Yup
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Good, we need fewer NY drivers
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New jerseyans don’t take the turnpike and GSP? Wonder which roads I was driving on this weekend then…
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That's what I get for not reading the article.
It makes sense charging cars more for usage, but it's unfortunate that a chunk of jerseyans need to pay the bill for the benefit of all jerseyans.
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It looks like they will now go up 3% a year. This tunnel is going to cast just under $13 billion! That’s just crazy.
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Triple them and hurry up with the tunnels
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Thank you, Chris Christie, for cancelling the last set of fully funded, already under construction tunnels, almost 11 years ago! To think the problem could have been solved already. Thank god we get to pay more for the same thing! It was all worth it, though--you really stuck it to the Obama administration.
Never forget this state, outside of Essex and Hudson counties, voted for him for two terms (overwhelmingly in his second). A black mark on our states history for sure.
HE WAS SO STRONG IN THOSE SANDY ADS THOUGH
Whenever I hear talk about him making a political comeback I want to vomit.
It’s sad we gave him the stage we did to the point where he was able to make so many runs for president
Yup, the opening date was supposed to be 2019. Yeah sure it would have been late, but might have opened this year.