Hudson Valley commuters rip ‘absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous’ $15 NYC congestion toll
NY Post
Hudson Valley commuters ripped into the MTA’s congestion toll in a town hall in Ulster County Saturday, begging the Big Apple and Albany to put the controversial pricing plan on-hold.
The event was sponsored by battleground congressional district Rep. Pat Ryan (D-NY), who regularly excoriates his fellow Democrats who are pushing for the Manhattan fares.
“I think this is an absolutely unacceptable and ridiculous plan,” Ryan told the crowd crammed into a meeting room in the Castleton-on-Hudson Village Hall on Saturday.
The proposed congestion pricing toll would charge drivers $15 a day to enter midtown Manhattan south of 60th Street.
Ryan says he feels slighted after the feds helped bail out the MTA with a $10.5 billion aide package in 2021.
“I think it’s total bulls–t,” Ryan told the Post. “I think people feel that this isn’t even a partisan political thing, it’s sort of a ‘are you for working people? Are you for union members? Are you for cops? Are you for firefighters? Are you for farmers?’ I mean, that’s our community.”
