MTA seizes cars in Verrazzano-Narrows $1M toll enforcement blitz
Forty-four cars — representing nearly $1 million in unpaid tolls and fines — were impounded this week in a toll enforcement blitz on the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, MTA officials announced Friday.
“Our message today is simple: If you cover your license plate — even with a clear casing — or use fraudulent plates … you will pay the price,” MTA chair Janno Lieber said at a press conference in Staten Island.
License plate coverings and fake or fraudulent plates helped cost the MTA more than $46 million in lost toll revenue in 2022, according to the agency’s fare evasion report published this spring.
“This is about fundamental fairness,” Lieber said. “It’s not right when drivers, some rolling around in Mercedes and Porsches, come on to our bridges and through tunnels and skip out on paying thou...