Bridge Tolls
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East River Bridge Tolls, Who Will Really Pay[Page: Previous 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next] 3. How This Report Is Organized The remainder of this report is in five sections: County-to-County Trip Breakdown — We show the volumes of motor vehicle trips from one borough or county to another. Borough Burdens from Tolls and Increased Property Taxes — Here we compare costs to each borough from prospective East River bridge tolls with the increase in residential real estate taxes. Per Capita Toll Impacts — We examine the impact of bridge tolls on a per capita basis, and highlight the vast difference between costs for bridge commuters, on the one hand, and the far larger population of City and area residents who don’t use the East River bridges regularly. Income “Progressivity” — We show that regular users of the East River bridges are considerably more affluent than other New Yorkers. Value Pricing — How time-differentiated toll rates could affect the cost of tolls by borough and per capita. Commercial Drivers — Effects on commercial drivers, from interstate truckers to deliverymen and service workers, and how the impacts might be ameliorated. Not every tolling issue is treated here. For example, the impact of bridge tolls on traffic flow and travel time is outside our scope (we touch on it briefly in Section 9). So is the state of technology for tolling at high speed without toll booths (for a primer on this subject see http://www.bridgetolls.org/highspeed/). Rather, we address only borough and per-capita impacts from bridge tolls, to explode some often-repeated myths about the effect of bridge tolls. For more on bridge toll benefits, go to http://www.bridgetolls.org/faq/. |