Originally Posted by
indyfabz
How is the city responsible for tolls, registration, inspection, insurance and gas? For example, is there a city gas tax? Are inspection and registration charges not set by the state as they are in PA? Does the city assess or affect tolls? Does it set and/or regulate insurance rates?
The city is actually very responsible, for the high costs of everything here. Sometimes not directly, but they get a huge piece of all the money motorists pay.
There are 8 different gas tax's here, some of which are state, but most are city, hence the high price for gas here. Insurance is through the roof in the city, because the city cannot protect cars from theft and the cost of litigation here is tremendous, so the city being unable to protect our cars and keep the the cost of litigation down plays a big role in the costs. The city gets a big part of the tolls here for road building, road repair (yeah, right!) and the subways get a big chunk to. So they have have a say in that too.
I can actually live with all of that, but please stop treating us like pariahs, like we're the problem. Stop obstructing us, stop the over-control, and just give us our monies worth...