Holy shit fare/toll increases for travel into NYC

[trinityvixen]

Tolls to go up for travel across the Hudson.

I am all for making driving a little more expensive to convert drivers into mass-transiters, but given the sorry state of mass transit--and the fact that mass transit would become more expensive, too--this is a shit plan. I don't know what to think about this but that milking commuters has never been

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[ahab99]

Getting past the stupid attitude about taxes would fix so many things. If only we could actually *believe* that funding something like a fully functional public transport system would be a public good, we might be able to get somewhere! Instead, we half-ass it and then are surprised that it doesn't work the way we want. Actually, that seems to be our approach to all government services right now... :(