What's happening
This bill prohibits tolls or fees for motor vehicle passage on highways within any New York city with over one million people.
Why it matters
Would block congestion pricing and other toll-based traffic management strategies. in New York City and similar large cities, potentially affecting efforts to reduce traffic congestion, vehicle emissions, and promote public transit.
Limits revenue sources for city and state transportation infrastructure. without tolls or fees, cities over one million people may face funding gaps for road maintenance, transit projects, and safety upgrades that are often supported by toll revenues.
Could shift the financial burden for road upkeep from drivers to all taxpayers. , since road maintenance and improvements would still be necessary but could no longer be directly funded by toll-paying drivers.
May have broader impacts on equity and mobility. , as removing tolls could increase traffic volumes, potentially slowing down transit and delivery times, and affecting air quality in densely populated urban areas.
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End NYC Highway Tolls
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STATE OF NEW YORK
7327
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prohibiting the imposition of a toll or fee for passage of a motor vehicle over a highway within a city having a population of one million or more
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Section 391 of the vehicle and traffic law is amended to read as follows:
§ 391. Rates of toll on motor vehicles. 1. Where a different rate is not otherwise prescribed or permitted by law, any person or corporation maintaining a plank road, turnpike road or bridge and authorized, or which shall be hereafter authorized, to receive tolls for the passage of motor vehicles over the same, may charge and receive for each and every motor vehicle propelled by any power other than animal power, passing over the same, a toll rate not greater than the maximum rate allowed by law to be charged and received for the passage of a vehicle drawn over such road or bridge by two animals, provided that for such motor vehicles designed to carry only two persons the rate of toll charged or received shall not exceed the maximum rate allowed by law to be charged and received for the passage of a vehicle drawn over such road or bridge, without a load, by a single animal.
2. Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, no person, corporation, public authority, municipality, the state, nor any agency of the state or of a political subdivision thereof shall be authorized to impose or receive a toll or fee for passage of a motor vehicle over any highway within a city having a population of one million or more.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11008-01-7
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