Outgoing Port Authority head Chris Ward appeared at a Lower Manhattan Marketing Association meeting this morning and told the assembled that he was pushed out of his job for political reasons.

“What I learned, as my hand got singed in the oven, was that you can’t raise tolls anymore to what they would have to be to sustain the Port Authority,” Ward said, according to Julie Shapiro of DNA Info.

Mr. Ward added:

“I somewhat paid the political price of saying [the tolls] could have and should have been higher.” Read More