Comments on: Paterson’s MTA Rescue Bill Now Online http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/03/03/patersons-mta-rescue-bill-now-online/ Covering the New York City Streets Renaissance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: drosejr http://www.streetsblog.org/2009/03/03/patersons-mta-rescue-bill-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-64022 drosejr Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:12:51 +0000 http://www.streetsblog.org/?p=5589#comment-64022 Reposting my comments from below - other than this, seems like legislation-speak. Few items of note on the Governor's MTA bill: First, I-95/Trans-Manhattan Expressway drivers will not get tolled so long as they stay on the road and go through Manhattan into New Jersey. It would seem difficult to plug all of the holes on 95 through Manhattan, though, so there may be drivers who get off 95 onto the Henry Hudson/West Side Highway or local streets in order to avoid a $2 toll. Could create an even more monumental Cross-Bronx X-Way morning commute log-jam. Also, Governor's bill proposes severing NYC Transit buses away from the subways to form the Regional Bus Authority. Not sure of the positives or negatives of that, but I imagine the more enlightened readers of this blog will be able to parse that out. Reposting my comments from below – other than this, seems like legislation-speak.

Few items of note on the Governor’s MTA bill:

First, I-95/Trans-Manhattan Expressway drivers will not get tolled so long as they stay on the road and go through Manhattan into New Jersey. It would seem difficult to plug all of the holes on 95 through Manhattan, though, so there may be drivers who get off 95 onto the Henry Hudson/West Side Highway or local streets in order to avoid a $2 toll. Could create an even more monumental Cross-Bronx X-Way morning commute log-jam.

Also, Governor’s bill proposes severing NYC Transit buses away from the subways to form the Regional Bus Authority. Not sure of the positives or negatives of that, but I imagine the more enlightened readers of this blog will be able to parse that out.

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