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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Passing through Manhattan notwithstanding, any route that funnels auto traffic from the mainland to LI and vice-versa through the city limits is a distinction in search of a difference in my opinion. It's still in many cases a sandwich being shoved through a straw. Depending on where it's placed, a cross-Sound tunnel could pull hundreds of thousands of vehicles headed to Conn and northward off of highways within the city.
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There will never be a cross-sound bridge or tunnel.
There's no real constituency that supports it. You're talking about some of the wealthiest, most NIMBY communities on the planet (Gold Coast of LI and Coastal CT). It's a non-starter.
And, again, it has nothing to do with what we're talking about. Congestion pricing isn't about Long Islanders headed to the mainland. The main connecting bridges are all on the fringes of the city.