Monday, August 22, 2011

Cost of living about to go way up

From the NY Post:

Big rigs that carry everything from food to medicine into the city will get slammed with monster-sized toll hikes on Port Authority bridges and tunnels -- and the massive increases will certainly get passed on to consumers.

New York’s crossings are already the costliest in the country, but a new series of toll hikes the Port Authority approved yesterday will see them balloon over the next four years, beginning next month.

Everyone who uses the PA’s facilities was hit with an increase, but truckers were hit the hardest.

Cash tolls on a 5-axle tractor trailer -- the type of truck commonly used to make deliveries -- will increase from $40 to $65 starting next month, eventually climbing to a whopping $105 per trip in 2015.

90 percent of goods sold in the Big Apple are brought in by truck...

Big Apple businesses -- already paying exorbitant fees to have their goods trucked in -- are preparing for the worst.

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'll tell you Scotty, if we start beaming goods right into the stores without using trucks we can make a fortune. Can you rig the teleporter to do this and make it portable.
"I'm trying captain, you have to give me time!"

Anonymous said...

The saddest part of all this is that the politicians are just raising more money to steal and waste.

Anonymous said...

You could bring it in by rail like they used to, but then I'm sure the whiners at that private school built next to fresh pond yard (which predates it) will be crying to the press about one or two more trains a day.

Toll hike will also hit trash leaving the city - so look for new taxes to cover that (again, it could go via rail or barge, but people cry about that every time it comes up)

Queens Crapper said...

When did they "used to" bring in goods by rail? You mean when they barged things in and then loaded them at the depot in LIC?

As for trash leaving the city, most have expressed preference for barge over rail, but the city insists on antiquated rail for western Queens when it's got lots of water access.

Anonymous said...

"one or two more trains a day"

Really? One or two more trains a day if most goods are brought in by train?

What an idiot.

Anonymous said...

but the city insists on antiquated rail for western Queens when it's got lots of water access.

Maybe because it's difficult to get a barge to PA

Queens Crapper said...

Western Queens' trash goes to Virginia, which was a coastal state last time I checked.

Anonymous said...

The Port Authority does not lay off workers.....that's a fact. While we are all paying toll hikes up the kazoo, the PA workers are getting nice pay raises, great retirement packages (early retirement packages as well, with total free health care) and we are paying for it....

Anonymous said...

Who gets free health care anymore at the taxpayers expense. Oh wait a minute....Our politicians and now Port Aurthority Workers....SMH.

Anonymous said...

>>90 percent of goods sold in the Big Apple are brought in by truck...

What's the other 10% - immigrants as mules?