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New! Democratic mayoral candidates debate congestion pricing, with commentary.

Will They or Won't They?
City council toll opponents can't decide if tolls will reduce traffic.

Daily News Endorses Tolls
The News says that like London's congestion charge, tolls would raise revenue and cure congestion.

Times Endorses Tolls
"[Bloomberg] should begin with those who are carrying less than their share now. There is no good reason, for instance, that the East River bridges should continue to be toll-free."

Brooklyn and Queens Back Tolls
City voters, including those from Brooklyn and Queens, chose tolls as their first choice in a Quinnipiac University poll asking how to best close the city's budget gap.

Survey

You hear on the car radio that traffic is very heavy. How much would you pay to cut today's drive to work from 45 minutes to 35?

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(Enter an integer or a decimal number.)

  

 

Once a certain traffic density is surpassed, every driver contributes involuntarily to a slowing of traffic. The time that the individual driver steals from all the others by slowing them down is greater many times over than the time he or she might have hoped to gain by taking the car. --Wolfgang Sachs, _For Love of the Automobile_

 
"Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz doesn't speak for me. As a Brooklynite and a car owner, I fully support East River bridge tolls and congestion pricing. They would reduce traffic and pollution and could bring in $800 million to stop increases in subway and bus fares."
  --Brooklyn resident Steven Levine, in the Daily News Letters to Ed.
 
Read BTAP's report "The Hours" which quantifies the time savings that motorists will enjoy with East River tolls.
Obituary Notice
"Bloomberg gets an 'A' for vision but an 'F' for follow-through," said pro-tolls economist Charles Komanoff, founder of the Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project. "He grasped that tolls could bust gridlock while raising vital revenue, but he barely lifted a finger to show New Yorkers how they would benefit," Komanoff said.