Make New York Post a Preferred Source The $9 congestion fee is scheduled to climb to $15 by 2031 under the current tolling framework. Stefano Giovannini Gov. Kathy Hochul and MTA boss Janno Lieber hope a new cash bath courtesy of Uncle Sam and the coming Democratic-run Congress will bankroll the transit agency’s endless spending spree — but they should think about sharing the windfall via, say, reducing those vile “congestion” tolls.
Yes, incoming House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Brooklynites, could deliver billions in federal funds for another round of New York transit projects.
Hochul and Lieber’s top funding priorities: the Second Avenue Subway, Gateway Tunnel, Interborough Express and any Penn Station rebuild.
How about leaving Penn (now President Donald Trump’s pet project) well enough alone, and nixing the next planned “congestion” tax hike?
Don’t increase the squeeze on working-class New Yorkers already struggling to survive in an unaffordable city.
Whenever the MTA gets a windfall, its appetite for taxpayer cash only grows — and its voracious unions, above all at the LIRR (who backed Bruce Blakeman for gov!), get greedier still.
Jeffries and Schumer shouldn’t give the MTA a dime without serious “affordability” strings attached.
