{"id":660,"date":"2008-04-11T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/ny6wp\/?p=660"},"modified":"2008-04-11T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T16:27:00","slug":"port-authority-tolls-reduce-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Port Authority Tolls Reduce Traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month&#8217;s bump in tolls saw a dramatic decline in traffic, according to the <a HREF=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/11\/bridge-and-tunnel-traffic-dips-after-tolls-rise\/index.html?hp\">Times<\/a>. The 2.9% drop in traffic was far greater than the expected 2.3% drop, and occurred faster. Thats more than 10,000 fewer vehicles crossing the river. <\/p>\n<p>The toll hike increased the six dollar toll to eight, and eliminated the discount for EZ-Pass users. The statistics come days after New York&#8217;s failure to approve a congestion pricing plan, which coincidentally, would also have been an eight dollar fee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month&#8217;s bump in tolls saw a dramatic decline in traffic, according to the Times. The 2.9% drop in traffic was far greater than the expected 2.3% drop, and occurred faster. Thats more than 10,000 fewer vehicles crossing the river. The toll hike increased the six dollar toll to eight, and eliminated the discount for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"views":1392,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newyorkssixth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}