Support for One Pro-Transit Bill, Opposition to Congestion Pricing Carve-Out

To prevent raids of dedicated funds, Reinvent Albany reissued its memo of support for A567 (González-Rojas) / Senate TK (Gounardes), which remits internet sales tax funds directly to the MTA without appropriation. We urge the Senate and Assembly to pass this bill.

We also issued a memo of opposition to A1599 (Pheffer Amato), which exempts first responders from congestion pricing tolls. It would be contrary to notions of basic fairness to pass this bill and reward a powerful special interest with a costly handout that will ultimately be paid by other toll payers or taxpayers.