{"id":108452,"date":"2020-11-09T23:21:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mta-bringing-two-way-tolls-back-to-verrazzano-bridge-in-december\/"},"modified":"2020-11-09T23:21:36","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T20:21:36","slug":"mta-bringing-two-way-tolls-back-to-verrazzano-bridge-in-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mta-bringing-two-way-tolls-back-to-verrazzano-bridge-in-december\/","title":{"rendered":"#MTA bringing two-way tolls back to Verrazzano Bridge in December"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#MTA bringing two-way tolls back to Verrazzano Bridge in December<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/080217_Verrazano_bridge_jumperPM.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        The bridge tolls for thee, Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p>Starting next month, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will be tolled in both directions for the first time in 35 years, the MTA said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Dec. 1, most Verrazzano drivers who use E-ZPass will pay $6.12 in both the Staten Island and Brooklyn directions, officials said. All other drivers will pay $9.50.<\/p>\n<p>Staten Island residents will only be charged just $2.75 to cross the bridge in either direction, however.<\/p>\n<p>The current Staten Island-bound toll is currently $12.24 with E-ZPass and $19 for everyone else.<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn-bound drivers had been exempt thanks to 1986 federal legislation that made the span the only one in the country with mandatory one-directional tolls.<\/p>\n<p>The highest-in-the-nation toll encouraged some 7,000 daily drivers to opt for a toll-free route through Manhattan, clogging up the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and Manhattan\u2019s Canal Street.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump and Congress repealed the statute in 2019 with the support of Congressman Max Rose (D-Staten Island) and other New York City officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe restoration of split tolling will end a 30-year loophole in New York City that will help alleviate congestion on Staten Island while improving the environment,\u201d MTA Chairman Pat Foye said in a statement.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/11\/09\/mta-bringing-two-way-tolls-back-to-verrazzano-bridge-in-december\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#MTA bringing two-way tolls back to Verrazzano Bridge in December&#8221; The bridge tolls for thee, Brooklyn. Starting next month, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge will be tolled in both directions for the first time in 35 years, the MTA said Monday. Beginning Dec. 1, most Verrazzano drivers who use E-ZPass will pay $6.12 in both the Staten&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/11\/080217_Verrazano_bridge_jumperPM.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[79276,71452,71556,79342,79250],"class_list":["post-108452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-9-20","tag-mta","tag-staten-island","tag-tolls","tag-verrazano-bridge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}