Staten Island’s bitter opposition to the MTA’s congestion pricing plan is reviving a long-dormant secession movement in the borough.
against the US Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration, alleging the feds didn’t conduct a proper review of the toll’s impact on New Jersey drivers.
Rep. Nicole Malliotakis says “it’s time” for Staten Island to “Secede. There’s no real value in being part of this city or the state.”The borough’s already gridlocked roads will only get worse when Manhattan-bound drivers try to beat the congestion fee taking the borough’s bridges and highways to get to the free Staten Island ferry, or Brooklyn subway stops, officials believe.
Tolls by mail for the Verrazano and New Jersey bridges connecting with Staten Island are $17 by mail.
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