Fare Hike
Political Group Wants Riders To Help Fight The Hike
When you pick up your Tuesday copy of the New York Daily News, you will see an article writing by Joseph Addabbo Jr. Mr. Addabbo along with his fellow Queens Councilman John Liu are part of the team which brings you the anti-fare hike site Fight The Hike 08. The group will unveil its plan [...]
HaltTheHike.org Reopens
Lost in the shuffle of all the transit news was the official relaunch of the HaltTheHike.org website. The website is run by The Straphangers Campaign & The Working Families Party. The purpose of the site is to encourage riders to send e-mails through their form to both Mayor Bloomberg & Gov. Patterson urging why a [...]
Bloomberg Talking Butts With The King
A few days ago I wrote about Mayor Bloomberg’s idea of starving off at least one potential fare hike by collecting on the taxes of cigarettes sold on Indian reservations. The entry revolved around a brief article in the New York Post. Now Mayor Bloomberg has teamed with Long Island Republican Congressman Peter King to [...]
Cigarette Taxes To Starve Off A Fare Hike?
Mayor Bloomberg sure seems to think so. According to him, the uncollected taxes on cigarettes sold on Indian reservations could starve off at least one of the two potential fare hikes facing commuters. David Seifman of the New York Post filed the brief report:
NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Bloomberg blew smoke in the MTA’s face over [...]
My Thoughts On The Proposed Fare Hikes
As I had mentioned previously, I wanted to attend yesterday’s presentation of the MTA’s financial plan & preliminary budget. Unfortunately due to business appointments in Long Island, I could not make it. However I did take the time to watch the entire board meeting & subsequent presentation live via the MTA’s webcast.
The board meeting in [...]
Gov. Patterson Criticizes The MTA’s Plan To Raise Fares
New York State Governor David Patterson openly criticized the MTA’s plan to implement substantial fare hikes. What their exact plans are won’t be known until later this morning when their financial plan is released (more on that in the next entry). Here is the report from Jeremy W. Peters, Fernanda Santos & Sewell Chan of [...]
MTA To Propose Substantial Fare Hikes Next Year
As we all know the MTA’s finances are in serious shambles. Major construction projects have faced delays, doubts have come about as to whether some will even be finished much less started for others. We also have had the implementation of cutbacks to maintenance throughout the system. Although people could only hope that was the [...]
MTA CEO Paints A Grim Financial Picture
You are not seeing things folks, at the current pace, the MTA will have a budget gap of anywhere between $500 & $700 million dollars. This is up drastically from the $220 million dollar figure projected last December. The news came from MTA CEO Elliot G. Sander who was speaking at a hearing in Albany [...]
