Albany, NY – Gov. David Paterson and New York legislative leaders are rejecting a proposal to put tolls on bridges as part of any deal to bail out New York City’s financially troubled mass transit system.
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Paterson says the Senate’s Democrat majority has taken the tolls off the table and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver is accepting that.
Also under consideration are proposals to hike Metropolitan Transportation Authority fares an average 8 percent and a payroll tax for businesses in the MTA’s 12-county region.
Now Albany has to find a way to replace millions of dollars the tolls would have brought. Senate Democrats from the outer boroughs strongly opposed the tolls.
Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith says he hopes a deal can be struck today.
one good thing out of Albany!
keep it up Mr. Paterson, you’ll get my vote.
why don’t they just tex the air and finish.
THE next think u should do mr.govenor is to make sure that the goverment stop’S spending money for no good reason.
So instead of making people who use the system pay for it, they’ll just hike taxes on those of us outside NYC (with ZERO benefit from the MTA).
Bad news. We need bridge tolls desperately. Eventually, we will have them.