ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Even a year into construction, New York hasn’t detailed how it plans to pay for the new, $3.9 billion Tappan Zee Bridge and how much will be passed on to motorists in the form of tolls.
The questions deepened this past week when the Environmental Protection Agency balked at Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal to use $511 million in federal clean water loans on the project.
And Cuomo himself later dismissed an idea to tap some of the billions of dollars New York has collected in legal settlements over alleged wrongdoing by banks and insurance companies.
Commuters are concerned that the existing $5 toll to cross the old Tappan Zee could go higher — far higher — in five years when the new span across the Hudson River is completed.
