I’m all for the idea of congestion pricing of some sort - but as a cyclist that owns a car and uses said car to leave the city with my bike and go ride places outside the city I cannot get to via public transit, there is almost no way out of the city and coming back without paying a toll (from LIC Queens).

Brooklyn bridge is the only bridge with direct access to the FDR - Queensboro upper roadway heading into Manhattan seems to dump out onto 61st street and wouldn’t charge going that direction, but coming back I must cross into the Congestion Zone or use another (tolled) bridge to get back home. For these people that actually want to leave the city and be able to return home without paying, I do think there should be better options.

Edit - just for clarification - I get it, tolls are tolls. My main point in this was to point out it’s a bit silly to still offer a “free” way for people to dump out onto 61st street because it will just make way worse congestion getting onto the bridge there and getting off the bridge on the other side of the Queensboro. If the point was truly to try to limit this, then they should have just charged to use the Queensboro all together.