The following report is a press release by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board:
Following a robust public comment period in which the MTA received 25,600 written comments and heard from 386 speakers at four public hearings, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Board, in its capacity as the board of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority, today approved Central Business District toll rates by a vote of 11 to 1.
The approved toll rates align with rates recommended by the Traffic Mobility Review Board on Nov. 30, 2023, and put forward for public review by the MTA Board on Dec. 6, with a handful of clarifications provided.
Passenger vehicles and small commercial vehicles – sedans, SUVs, pick-up trucks, and small vans – paying with a valid E-ZPass will be charged $15 during the day and $3.75 at night, when there is less congestion, to enter the congestion relief zone in Manhattan below 60th Street. They will be charged no more than once a day.
Today’s vote is one of the most significant the Board has ever undertaken, and the MTA is ready. In advance of day one of tolling, we’ve increased service on 12 subway lines, advanced redesigns of the entire NYC bus network, and implemented the largest service increase in LIRR history.
And there’s more to come with the funds raised from congestion pricing – more accessible stations, modernized subway signals, and new expansion projects like Phase 2 of the Second Avenue Subway and Metro-North Penn Station Access.
Said MTA Chair and CEO Janno Lieber.
Trucks and some buses will be charged a toll of $24 or $36 during the day to enter the congestion relief zone in Manhattan below 60th Street, depending on their size and function, and $6 or $9 at night. The toll for motorcycles will be $7.50 during the day and $1.75 at night. Yellow taxi, green cab and black car passengers will pay a $1.25 toll for every trip to, from, within or through the zone; customers of app-based for-hire vehicles will pay $2.50. As previously proposed, qualifying authorized emergency vehicles and qualifying vehicles carrying people with disabilities will be exempt. As will school buses contracted with the NYC Department of Education, buses providing scheduled commuter services open to the public, commuter vans licensed with the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, and specialized government vehicles.
As previously proposed, a 50% discount will be available for low-income vehicle owners and a tax credit is available for low-income residents of the Central Business District.
Full details of the toll rates are available at the Central Business District Tolling home page.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
The goonies have been deliberating on this bill for several years now and it has now finally passed – at a time when NYC is dead: businesses are shuttering and leaving in droves, creating a commercial real estate bust and office occupancy problem; as the streets are filled with immigrants, and the homeless and the criminals. And now the city is going to further drive its population into deeper debt and insolvency by forcing a super expensive tax on them for driving to and fro.
Meanwhile illegals are now receiving their prepaid Mastercards by just showing up. Do New York citizens get one? Of course not, silly!
Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he spoiled?
Jeremiah 2:14
When factoring in all the other taxes New Yorkers and Americans are paying, it’s called slavery.
We understand why they are doing this: it is to help fulfil and usher in the 15-minute city agenda. Cities and populations need to be brought to a crawl and become so impoverished and broke they cannot afford to travel, eat, and go to work as frequently. This is also why so many young adults and older teens are now going out as normal, and are instead cooped up in their apartments and parents’ homes with their devices, and sleeping a lot more because of it.
SEE: International Energy Agency Calls For ‘Car-Free Sundays’ And Other Ways To Reduce Oil Use
These are green lockdowns by another name.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.
18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:
Lamentations 3:14-18
New York City was the capitalist powerhouse popular for Broadway (consider its title: BROAD-Way), its chic style, the beauty of Central Park, the Empire State Building, the biggest port for immigrants worldwide, and the very first thing that people thought of when they heard the word “America.” Up until the mid-2000s at least, it was like that… now, it’s a gigantic slum packed with criminals, liberal God haters and heathens, and illegals.
I guess the American NOT Iraqi attack on its own soil on September 11th, 2001 wasn’t enough to make New York repent, they only got more wicked and proud “We’re America strong, we’re New York strong and Texas strong, proud to be an American and POWER OF PRIDE!”
Now, the axe is falling on NYC!