Price of tolls in NY/NJ?

Verrazano was not too steep. It's really HIGH though, if I remember the sea in that area, there is what is called Sandy hook. The main entry and exit to the entire harbor of that area. Verrazano sits right below it. On busy rush days the ships would stack both ways coming and going.

I did not use the V too much more than a handful of times. The last time I used it, they had closed the toll booths due to excessive crime at night and you rolled through them at 80 plus threading the ultimate needle. Anyone stupid enough to hang in that area would be killed or worse and no one will know until the sun came up.

I also stopped using the LIE, the construction to replace it was getting to where I was systematically destroying the trailer rubbing on that #### concrete everywhere. It's not worth it. Told the boss aint going on LIE again for a long time, if ever. Turns out if ever was the best path. I have a photograph of the twin towers shot from the area of throgs bridge and whitestone one day about 6 weeks prior to 9-11. I had the urge to shoot em out of my pax window at 60. Fortunately the camera was able to capture it. I'll post it at some point after scanning. But not just yet.

The other thing with 9-11 I think there is what is called the williamsburg bridge that took you into or very near the Ring of Steel which is at the foot of manhatten. They had staff on that bridge from the city intercepting big trucks after 9-11 to examine you and question your intentions. Usually you are working to get out of the city up the hatten. So it's atlantic ave etc. on the west side all the way up. It's a treat. All those glass and steel canyons.

Also one more tidbit, if that is the correct bridge with it's brown blocks, soldiers who fought at Gettysburg found work laying those stones on that bridge being built after the battle. It took a while to do it by hand. But they got it done.

In my time they really cleaned up the city. For which I am thankful for. The food is outrageously good if you can get parked long enough to get it cooked and bagged to you over the counter. (Somewhat pricey too...)

Later on in college for IT, I learned much more about the City's new defenses against attack in form of hot backup data centers. One of which was being built to accept a laser beam transfer of data transmitted in real time about 30 miles as the crow flies. So that if something did happen to NYC in a real bad way, everything up to that moment in finance etc will be preserved.

 

I remember back in the early 80s the GWB wasn't but 7 dollars to cross. The throgneck bridge today makes over 2 billion in revenue per year which makes it the highest toll bridge ever. That's not including all the other bridges in ny. My question is this. Where the heck is all this money going too? These bridges have been pd for many years ago. Now I don't know if some of you know it or not but after 100 years the state of ny doesn't suppose to charge another penny for any bridges. What happened is the state sold out there profits to another country years ago so ny doesn't even own the bridges anymore. That's why the cost went up so high. Not bc of hwy funds and putting money back for construction cost. These bridges has been paid for drivers years ago. It's just like everyday expenses for everyone drivers, if the feds jacks up prices for everything and we don't fight against it, then that's more profitable to them no matter who they have borrowed money from or what country. U.S.A. use to be the lender but now we're just like a third world country letting our on American people pay for there screwups.

 

Bridge repair do you think it's cost 0 dollar to maintain almost 100 years old bridge?

 

Bodine said 2.1 billion $ revenue a year in tolls, but thats for ALL ny bridges and tunnels tolls.

Now, are bridges expensive both to build and maintain?

Yes, but throgs neck is the newest bridge (1961) and cost 92 million then. They just replaced (are replacing) the deck of the throgs neck at a cost of 253 million (apparently a 3 year project)

so assuming thats normal every year per crossing, 84 million maintenance per each of the 9 bridges and tunnels, the mta cost of maintence vs revenue would be 756 million maint, 2.1 billion total revenue, 1.344 billion.

Now thats about 150 million per crossing annually after maintenance costs. Id have to say that feels somewhat unreasonable, BUT the mta operates them and that cash defrays other costs to their transportation network throught nyc as well. It feels exceptionally high even so.

 

I used to think this too but it's a myth. I've been running TN to Boston and back every week for the last month and I can get there for about $24 each way on major interstate with 5 axles. My route up is 81/84/90, same return unless my backhaul causes me to go a different way.

I don't get anywhere near NYC. The closer you get to NYC the more the price goes up, and fast.

 

Yeah I look at NYC all the time but never cross the bridges. Same with the pa pike. I go about 30 miles east of Philly and I run 78 into jersey and down NJ31

 

I heard they put a toll booth on I95 by Trenton NJ now? Use to be that was the only way out of Jersey with no toll.