New Jersey wants seat on NYC traffic fee panel

[rusty charly]

New Jersey wants a seat on the commission that will consider whether motorists should pay to drive into parts of Manhattan. State Senate President Richard J. Codey says 250,000 New Jersey commuters daily would be affected if the panel approves Mayor Michael Bloomberg's congestion pricing. Codey says the stakes are far too important to be governed "by purely parochial political considerations.''

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The commission's members were announced Tuesday. They will examine the overall concept of reducing traffic, with an emphasis on Bloomberg's plan for tolling drivers as a way to get more people onto mass transit.