MONTEBELLO – State Senator-Elect William Weber (R, Pearl River) Friday criticized the Thruway Authority for considering a $2 toll increase on the Cuomo Tappan Zee Bridge over a four-year period. The proposal is on the agenda for the authority’s Monday board meeting.
He said Rockland County families “are struggling to make ends meet in the wake of the pandemic, amidst historic inflation and rising costs of goods.” He said throughout his district, “families are making difficult choices about where to cut their household spending.”
The incoming lawmaker said unelected “Albany bureaucrats are planning to inflict more economic pain by hiking tolls” on the Thruway and bridge,” one more burdensome expense to family budgets bursting at the seams.”
Weber called the proposal an “ill-advised plan” that is a “wrong solution at the wrong time for over-extended New Yorkers worried about putting food on the table and paying their bills.”
