What's happening
This bill prohibits the city of New York from imposing tolls or charges on vehicles or pedestrians using city-operated bridges.
Why it matters
Protects free access to city bridges. By prohibiting tolls or charges for vehicles and pedestrians, the bill ensures that all New Yorkers can continue to move between boroughs without additional costs, which may be especially significant for low-income residents and daily commuters.
Limits potential revenue streams for the city. The city would be barred from introducing new tolls on bridges it operates, potentially impacting future funding options for infrastructure maintenance, improvements, or transit projects that could have been funded through collected tolls.
Affects transportation policy flexibility. This restriction reduces the city's ability to use tolls as a tool for managing traffic congestion or promoting environmental goals, such as encouraging public transit use or reducing vehicle emissions.
Sets a legal precedent. By embedding this prohibition into the city’s administrative code, the bill could make it more challenging for future administrations to revisit or reconsider tolling as a policy option, regardless of changing transportation needs or fiscal realities.
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Ban Bridge Tolls
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STATE OF NEW YORK
4063
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 31, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Transportation
AN ACT to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to the tolling of bridges controlled or operated by the city of New York
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Title 19 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new chapter 10 to read as follows:
CHAPTER 10
BRIDGES
§ 19-1001 Tolls. No tolls or other charges shall be imposed for vehicular or pedestrian traffic for the use of any bridge controlled or operated by the city.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08390-01-9
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