Pols: Congestion pricing should also bring 'substantial benefit' to Long Island

Congestion pricing – a plan that aims to alleviate traffic in Manhattan – should not overly burden Long Island commuters without also bringing benefits to the region.

That’s the message to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio from Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins and Long Island’s senate delegation, which includes Sens. John Brooks, Jim Gaughran, Anna Kaplan, Todd Kaminsky, Monica Martinez, and Kevin Thomas.

On Tuesday Cuomo and de Blasio announced a plan for new tolls on motorists entering the heart of Manhattan, as a way to raise revenue for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Stewart-Cousins and the Long Island delegation said in a statement about the plan that as “representatives for millions of Long Island commuters,” they aim to “to ensure that any congestion pricing plan is not funded on their backs without substantial benefit.”

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