Increasing the truck toll may not significantly reduce truck traffic but will result in increased costs for goods and services and increased revenue for the City. A more effective measure would be to ban the loading and offloading of trucks in congested parts of the City during peak hours. Obviously, such a ban would only be successful if it is adequately enforced and fines are prohibitive.
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Increasing the truck toll may not significantly reduce truck traffic but will result in increased costs for goods and services...
Heinrich McBean
Jan 17, 2007 11:24
As always, Congressman Weiner comes out with the unrealistic to achieve the wrong goal. Typically Weinerism. [MORE]