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Originally Posted by Egobop
The 59th Street Bridge is at the end of Queens Boulevard. It is not hard to get to from the LIE or the Grand Central Parkway. It usually does already have a lot of traffic on it and with tolls would be much worse. The Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges are also at the end of local roads but are easily accessible from the BQE and also have a lot of traffic on them as well.
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This isn't going to be an issue because the authority over those bridges (transfer of city vs. state) was not granted.
It would provide a series of challenges which would cost more to implement than they would be worth- there is also the legal factor of disconnecting federally funded interstates completely so that the y are inacessible by anything but toll roads.
Still though, in regards to the original posters thoughts- there is an irony that comes up around here. The MTA is an agency bent on providing better public transit and reducing cars on the road; yet without drivers paying the bridge and tunnel tolls the agency would go completely bankrupt.
Go figure.
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