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Originally Posted by fliptuner
Are those daily commutes?
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NJ to NY is a daily commute for many people. $12.50 toll each way for the lincoln tunnel and other similar crossings.
With everyone saying "lower the price more people will use it" and variations thereof: you don't think that the people managing the bridge have done some sort of calculation, tracking, polling, etc. to determine where they set the price?
Yeah of course if they lower the toll to 50 cents everyone will take that bridge, but literally the number of cars on the bridge would have to increase 6 fold to make up the difference. I highly doubt that would happen.
Even then most cheapasses would still drive extra to go to the patullo, because they are dumb.
The $3 toll was not an arbitrary figure, and the cost increases are simply to account for inflation and the maintenance needs as the bridge and network infrastructure ages.
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Actually thats a great point. Since december of 2013 tolls over the lincoln tunnel have gone from $8 to their current rate of $9.50 per crossing.
Now bare with me here, my math has failed me once today already:
9.50 vs 8 is an increase of 18% (And that's rounding favorably).
3.15 vs 3 is only an increase of 5%
So actually compared to most of NY you guys are way the fuck ahead. I'd shut the fuck up before those clowns at treo really pour the pain on.
MORE EDIT: I fucked up, don't know what data I was looking at, but here:
http://www.panynj.gov/bridges-tunnel...-2001-2015.pdf
It's actually even worse 11.00 vs 12.75 for a single vehicle with single rear tires. Thats a 16% difference still vs our 5%.