An area lawmaker is calling on the state Thruway Authority to extend a Tappan Zee Bridge toll freeze to residents who are not E-ZPass holders. The current plan is to keep the toll at $4.75 for Rockland and Westchester E-ZPass holders through 2022. Rockland state senator David Carlucci spoke at the Thruway Authority’s first of three public hearings earlier this month and said those without E-ZPass could face a toll of $6.83, plus a $2 surcharge per billing statement this year, and a toll of $7.48 next year…
Carlucci also asked the Authority’s Toll Advisory Panel to meet more regularly so they could hear from members of the community.
In other Tappan Zee bridge news, a Port Chester attorney is spearheading a drive to bring the “Tappan Zee” name back to the bridge, officially named after the governor’s father, former New York governor Mario Cuomo. Dr. Monroe Mann says the original Dutch and Native American name should represent this part of the country as it originally had, and it should have been left alone by governor Andrew Cuomo…
Dr. Mann was a guest on the “Mike Parietti for Congress” show, heard here earlier this week on WRCR. For more information about his drive to get the Tappan Zee name back, visit his website, SaveOurTappanZee.org.