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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2317653, member: 6911"] It's true that the state contributes nearly a quarter of a billion dollars a year toward the operation and capital requirements of Metro North. It is a subsidy that wealthy Fairfield County residents conveniently choose to ignore when complaining about all the money they/we send to Hartford. But the rest of the state benefits by reducing dramatically ware and tear on the road system. But Metro North is given a meager subsidy by the federal government, while passenger rail systems in the rest of the world are granted far greater subsidies. I went across the Tappan Zee last night, though going east, so on the old span. PS Do you know why the Tappan Zee was built where it is, across the widest expanse of the Hudson River? Because that is the closest point to New York that would keep it out of the jurisdiction of the Port Authority, which has control of all crossing points and airports within a 25-mile radius of the Statue of Liberty. The Tappan Zee is slightly farther away. Governor Dewey wanted the revenues from the Tappan Zee to pay for other state roads. That's also why the new span was built on the northern side of the old span, and not the southern side. To keep it out of the clutches of the Port Authority. [/QUOTE]