It’s wrong that money from New York’s bridge and tunnel tolls is spent on buses, subways and trains, a lawsuit says.
Two businesses are trying to start a class-action case in Manhattan federal court seeking to change how the Metropolitan Transportation Authority spends money raised by tolls.
The ultimate goal is lowered tolls or refunds.
New York-based White Crane Martial Arts and a Florida energy company, Angus Energy, which has salespeople in New York, claim the MTA’s Bridges and Tunnels Division raked in more than $816 million from tolls in 2009 alone.
For decades, the MTA “used a large portion of these revenues, amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, to fund and/or subsidize a variety of capital projects, operations and initiatives unrelated to . . . water crossings,” according to court papers.
