Move NY plan to charge tolls on East River bridges gets airing in Boerum Hill
Details of a plan to deal with New York City’s traffic congestion and help fund infrastructure repairs and mass transit were discussed at a town hall meeting at the YWCA in Boerum Hill Thursday night.
Despite the bitter cold, dozens of community representatives attended to hear “Gridlock” Sam Schwartz, a former NYC traffic commissioner, and Alex Matthiessen, campaign director for Move NY, lay out the proposal.
The Move NY plan brings back the idea of tolls on the East River bridges connecting Brooklyn to Manhattan, but would lower tolls on the major outlying bridges – in what organizers call a “toll swap.”
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