One of my favorite songs in the 70s was a song by Simon and Garfunkel about the 59th Street Bridge. I am not sure why that song was actually about the bridge. It is one of the last bridges left that you can take into Manhattan without paying any money. It is also the plan of the powers that be to begin to charge the public for every bridge and tunnel into/and maybe out of NYC. Is this fair? I mean how are the people who live in the city supposed to be able to live with all the taxes etc.
The same politicians who are supposedly so liberal and for the "little guy" are not aware of what it takes to get by. It now costs around $11 to take some of the bridges into NYC and the money doesn't necessarily go to those bridges.
This is now becoming a class system for commuters. The traffic has become so bad on the cheaper options, that if you have money you avoid them at all costs. (pardon the pun!)
Interestingly though, on most of the bridges and tunnels, it costs nothing to leave NYC. Maybe we should all take the hint.
1 comment:
GREAT entry. Maybe the song is named after the bridge because of the Great Gatsby?
Found this at Answers.com:
http://www.answers.com/topic/queensboro-bridge-2
In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby and Nick Carraway traverse the bridge on their way from Long Island to Manhattan. "The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge," Nick says, "is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world".
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