Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: The Toll of Living in the City

Episode Date: April 4, 2024

Bill breaks down how much it is costing New Yorkers for transportation. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen to this. If you commute and work in New York City, Queens, Bronx, wherever, but you got to move from where you live in the tri-state area to the city, you have to pay for your transportation costs, right? last year in tolls bridges and tunnels into new york city 2.4 billion dollars that's how much the city took in and they're in the red they can't break even 2.4 billion just in tolls now they don't want to raise the tolls of course they do now nobody keeps track of that money by the way that's why they never have any money, the MTA. It's so much money coming in on a daily basis. Now it's all electronic. It used to be through the 50 cents in the basket. Now it's easy pass and they get this, they got that, and they're done, but billions and billions and billions of dollars. All right, 68 million more in 23 than 22. And it's going to be more next year because of congestion pricing.

so this slaps another huge toll on commuters and if you don't want to drive then you have to take public transportation which is not cheap and in the subway system it's dangerous okay so new jersey residents have it really bad all right and that state is suing the mTA to stop congestion pricing so the very liberal new york uh New Jersey governor, Phil Murphy, is suing New York authorities to stop congestion pricing. Now, he's going to lose because even though Murphy is correct that this is a pernicious toll that's going to hurt working people, that is going to happen. The authorities, the courts are going to rule New York and do what it wants, and New Jersey can't stop it, even because these people don't live in New York. They come to work here. So, New Jersey may get a block on it.

Now, this is all supposed to happen. It's nebulous. But in June, or sometime in summer, New Jersey might be able to block this. Okay. Now, let me tell you exactly what's going to happen when it finally goes into account. So you're not allowed to enter Manhattan below 60th Street. All right, that's Central Park if you want to draw a line all the way down to the battery. If you come into Manhattan in that area, you've got to pay at least 15 bucks, all right?

And if your trucks, it's 30. So all the commercial traffic is going to pass the cost. onto the consumer. So if you live in New York City, you're going to pay 20% more for whatever you want than you're paying now. That's number one. The MTA says it's going to lessen pollution. I don't think so, but if possible that may be down

on Wall Street and lower Manhattan, the pollution will be less, but in Harlem, where a lot of people are going to park and the garage is up there, and the garage is going to raise their prices, believe me. So you'll be paying, what, 50, 60 bucks a day to park above 60th Street, upper east side, upper west side, all those garages and jack up their prices,

and you'll be paying a lot of money. So you get out of the car, you park the car in the garage, you take mass transit down where you have to go or you walk. Okay, you get in the cab, I mean, cabs are gonna raise their, everybody's raising their prices. And the subways are raised and buses are ready,

you wait and see, okay? So it's basically there's, strangling the working class, they being Governor Hockel, Mayor Adda, all these people, they're strangling people who work for a living. And, you know, it's going to lead to more people leaving. And the people in the neighborhoods above 60, if you're not going to be happy, you'll have way more congestion you have now and more pollution. And if you own a parking garage, you'll be happy because you'll be able to gouge the people coming in a park. But it's just such a terrible situation.

The solution to all of this is you do not have trucks deliver items into New York City between the hours of seven in the morning and seven at night. That's what they do in Tokyo and other cities. Trucks come in at night to deliver. That's going to raise costs, but that's the way to do it.