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TO New Jersey The mayor is proposing the idea of reverse congestion tolling after New York City implemented its controversial congestion tolling last week.
Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop, who is also running for governor of the Garden State, floated the idea, according to Fox 5 New York.
“New Jersey has the same opportunity to push the buttons that New York is pushing against us,” Fulop told the outlet. “We could do that to them, but the goal is to come to a table to have a reasonable solution.”
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Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop speaks during a rally organized by the 32BJ SEIU workers union in support of a strike by Newark Airport workers in Newark on March 31, 2016. (Getty Images)
The mayor said he believes reverse congestion pricing is the appropriate response to New York City new toll, which imposes fees on vehicles entering busy areas of Manhattan as a way to encourage people to take the subway.
“There are a lot of crossings between Staten Island, New York, Bergen County and Hudson County into New Jersey,” Fulop said. “There are many opportunities to have the same type of impact fee that New York is applying to New Jersey.”
Fulop said he believes money from reverse congestion pricing should fund the mass transportation systemwhich has suffered delays and cancellations.
Congestion pricing plate readers are installed on Lexington Avenue on December 18, 2023 in New York City. (Getty Images)
“My opinion is that New Jersey Transit is a terrible product, and more should be invested in it, and until you get a reliable transportation system in New Jersey, you can’t responsibly think that people are going to take the trains” Fulop said. saying. “But this was an opportunity to get hundreds of millions of dollars for New Jersey Transit, and I think the governor just took a very easy political approach.”
There was initially a chance that New Jersey would receive hundreds of millions of dollars from New York City’s new toll, but that chance fell through amid litigation.
Aerial equipment installed on New York City streets for controversial congestion pricing plan. (Getty Images)
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Details of Fulop’s proposal are not yet finalized, but he said gantries or toll sites could be placed outside New Jersey’s tunnels and bridges.
He said that, as with congestion pricing, there may be exemptions or cross-credits.
It’s unclear whether New Jersey residents would have to pay the toll to re-enter their home state, as some New Yorkers do because of congestion pricing.
