re: #806 lawhawk

That’s the kind of system that the state, city and MTA are looking to impose on the East River bridges like the Brooklyn Bridge to tax anyone coming into Manhattan from Brooklyn, Queens or the Bronx. Given the DOT and MTA skill at other major projects, I can envision only problems, cost overruns, and major failures in the process along the way. I’ve heard that the costs to implement the cashless tolls at those bridges would require imposing tolls of $6 or more to break even because it would cost hundreds of millions just to get the toll system up and running (not counting ongoing administrative costs and new bureaucracy thereafter).

That’s the polar opposite of the NTTA. Their projects typically come in early, and at or under budget. The plans are to remove all the tollbooths on the DNT and PGBT in the next two years, and reassign toll booth workers to other jobs within the NTTA. I’m not crazy about toll roads, but they get built a helluva lot faster, since they’re funded with bonds, and don’t have to rely on the state legislature for funds and prioritization.