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The Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project was established in 2002 to serve and energize the citizens movement to toll the East River bridges. Our Web Site, www.bridgetolls.org, operates as the movement’s town hall, presenting the arguments, provoking debate and explaining the benefits. See http://www.bridgetolls.org/faq/ for our set of Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) about East River bridge tolls. Please contact us at info@bridgetolls.org or by writing to BTAP, 636 Broadway, Room 602, NYC 10012. Charles Komanoff has been engaged in New York City transportation-reform work since the mid-1980s. He is a founding trustee of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, the “re-founder” of Transportation Alternatives, a founder of Right Of Way, and author or co-author of Subsidies for Traffic, The Bicycle Blueprint, and Killed By Automobile. With Steven O’Neill, he founded the Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project in 2002. Komanoff was an energy-policy specialist in the Lindsay Administration (1972-74) and later gained prominence for deconstructing the economics of nuclear power as author-researcher (Power Plant Cost Escalation, Fiscal Fission) and expert witness for New York City and State and other states and municipalities. His recent energy-policy monographs include Ending The Oil Age and Securing Power Through Energy Conservation and Efficiency in New York. Komanoff has a B.A. from Harvard in Applied Math and Economics. He lives in lower Manhattan with his wife and two sons. Acknowledgments — This report could not have been written, or even conceived, without the expert analytical work and intellectual partnership of Steven O’Neill of the Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project. The author also gratefully acknowledges the superb editorial assistance of Michael J. Smith and the constant encouragement and input of Brian T. Ketcham. Support for the Bridge Tolls Advocacy Project is generously provided by the J M Kaplan Fund. |