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HR 140 IH

To eliminate a limitation with respect to the collection of tolls for use of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York.

January 3, 2001

Mr. NADLER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure

To eliminate a limitation with respect to the collection of tolls for use of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, New York.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. FINDINGS.

Congress finds that--

(1) the neighborhoods of Soho, Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Chinatown, the Lower East Side, and Lower Manhattan in New York County and Bay Ridge, Sunset Park, Boerum Hill, Red Hook, Carroll Gardens, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Heights, and downtown Brooklyn in Kings County, New York, have suffered adversely from the significant increase in oversize truck and other commercial vehicular traffic;

(2) trucks and commercial vehicles--

(A) in order to avoid tolls at other New York and New Jersey crossings, use the Verrazano Narrows Bridge route to enter New York City; and

(B) in order to avoid tolls to enter New York City and avoid the high cost of the one way toll on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, use Canal Street and the Holland Tunnel when heading eastbound out of New York City;

(3) the increase in truck traffic has resulted in extremely dangerous conditions for pedestrians in the communities referred to in paragraph (1), including a high number of fatalities;

(4) the resultant increase in oversized commercial vehicles' diesel particulate matter frequently exceed Federal clean air standards, diminishing the air quality for residents in such communities;

(5) since the use of intelligent transportation systems such as EZ-Pass at the Verrazano Narrows Bridge and all facilities owned by the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Metropolitan Transit Authority has been a great success in reducing congestion, pollution, and waiting time at toll facilities, it would not adversely impact air pollution by reinstituting the collection of tolls in both directions on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge; and

(6) the Metropolitan Transit Authority bridges and tunnels suffer a loss in revenue of $10,000,000 annually and over $100,000,000 over the last 10 years since the toll has been one way on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge.

SEC. 2. REPEAL OF LIMITATION.

Section 325 of the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996 (109 Stat. 456) is repealed.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

It is the sense of Congress that the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority and the Metropolitan Transit Authority should implement hi-speed EZ-Pass in the collection of tolls on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to ensure air quality standards are met and to reduce congestion at the Bridge.

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