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   Steven M. O'Neill to dannyb@panix.com   
   Re: The MTA Monopoly - closing the looph   
   30 Aug 22 13:50:48   
   
   From: steveo@panix.com   
      
   danny burstein   wrote:   
   >In  steveo@panix.com (Steven M. O'Neill)   
   writes:   
   >   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >>If you have a minivan full of enough people, the congestion   
   >>charge will be less than the subway fare. And you'll have a   
   >>faster ride because of less congestion.   
   >   
   >One BIG annoyance in the recent changes in PANYNJ tolls (for   
   >some value of recent that might be a decade by now...) was   
   >the MAJOR increase in the toll rate for buses and the   
   >shuttle vans.   
      
   That sounds bad.   
      
   https://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnels/en/tolls/bus-tolls.html   
      
   $17 peak. Doesn't seem too onerous. I'd happily pay more as a bus   
   passenger if they banned cars from the Lincoln Tunnel.   
      
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   Steven O'Neill                                  steveo@panix.com   
   Brooklyn, NY                        http://www.panix.com/~steveo   
      
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