Catsimatidis: Stop raising our bridge tolls!
Saying that there should be “fairness and rational in the toll system,” Republican mayoral hopeful John Catsimatidis came to Brooklyn on Monday to call for a freeze on the tolls on the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.
Catsimatidis, a billionaire supermarket mogul who hopes to win the GOP primary for mayor, stood at the entrance to the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in Bay Ridge to make his point. The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge toll has gone up 400 percent since the bridge opened in 1964, he said. What was once a 50 cent toll is now an eye-popping $15.00, or soon will be when the new toll rates officially go into effect on March 1.
“How do they say it in New York? Give me a break!” Catsimatidis said. “A 400 percent increase doesn’t make common sense,” he said.