4 billion a year? Man, that would build a lot of bridges - if it was ever used for that.
Many, many Howie Carr columns on this specific nugget over the years. The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority was paid for three times over but extended forever via bond issues with nothing to do with highways - over and over and over again. It’s nothing but a dumbocrat featherbed.
While upstate’s bridges are corroding to the point of being unsafe tolls & gas tax is funneled to NYC. FUAC.
Driving around NYC street is like driving through a boulder-strewn wilderness. There are unfilled potholes, areas of just pieces of loose asphalt instead of a paved road, areas where the asphalt forms waves, sinkholes, etc. You can rarely drive at the posted speed. I always ask myself, “What the heck are they doing with all the tolls and taxes they collect? Sure ain’t fixing the roads!”