The owners of the existing boat-crossing monopoly attack his bridge with an idea – that the animist spirit of the river is offended by the bridge and it must be stopped or floods will ensue.
But the notion of bridge tolls, an idea that has been raised and rejected in the past, seems to have already become the political hot potato that no one wants to handle.
During the meeting, Mr. Shaw said that tolls on the Brooklyn, the Manhattan, the Williamsburg and the Queensboro Bridges was an idea that was "important for this commission to consider".
Ultimately the bridge engineer chose an idea inspired by Benjamin Franklin's experiment with a kite.
(editorial, Nov. 12) calls for additional revenues for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, including tolls for the free bridges into Manhattan, an idea you note "has gone nowhere" over the years.
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Ideally, the package would also include new tolls on the free bridges coming into Manhattan, an idea that unfortunately has gone nowhere in Albany.
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The governor and Assembly leaders have a plan for a much smaller fare increase and no service cuts, but it would add tolls on East River bridges that are now free, an idea facing resistance in the State Senate.
Seven storeys of buildings would be cantilevered off the columns and, in an idea borrowed from bridge design, its extensive open decks are slung from cables.
