New Yorkers are fuming right now. The MTA fares are rising—yet again! The MTA Tuesday will propose another fare and toll hike – even as official data show subway service continuing to deteriorate. A 25 year old college student working a summer job as a messenger, said he might have to move. “At the rate it’s going, I won’t be here next year,” Graves said. “Everything goes up … except the minimum wage.”
Me, personally, I’m not shocked that they would rise the prices. This is NY, and it’s getting harder and harder to live in this city! The MTA sucks, it’s overcrowded, and the trains are always delayed. But they don’t care. Five years from now we’re probably going to be paying 4 dollars one way! Read more on this
The preliminary 2009 budget that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will unveil Tuesday would raise fare and toll revenues by $200 million, or 8%, the official said. The size of the proposed fare hike could be even higher if the MTA does not get increased annual state and city funding, including:
The Daily News reported last month that hundreds of thousands of free trips – many by law enforcement agencies like the NYPD – are granted each month.
“It seems like they are asking for a lot of the right stuff,” Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign said.
The MTA last year forecast a 2009 budget gap of $216 million. It has set a goal of trimming spending by 6% over four years. Rising fuel costs and declining revenues from some key taxes have combined to create an additional $700 million hole in the operating budget. The MTA also has sky-high debt payments on borrowing incurred in large part because of inadequate state funding during the Pataki administration, transit officials have said.
On another front, the MTA has proposed cutting its construction and maintenance by $2.7 billion.
“The chickens are coming home to roost,” Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester) said. “This is a problem so big it’s going to force cooperation.”
A panel appointed by Gov. Paterson late this year and headed by former MTA Chairman Richard Ravitch is to recommend funding solutions for the MTA. If the state and city governments act, there’s the possibility that riders could get a reprieve. If not, more severe hikes and service cuts are possible.
Mayor Bloomberg’s spokesman Stu Loeser said the city can’t increase subsidies but is looking forward to the Ravitch panel’s report.
NYC Transit reported Monday that subway on-time performance for the year ending in May was 92%, down from 93.6% in the previous 12-month period.
LOL people gonna be using razor scooters to get around…gonna have to leave 3 hours early to get to their destination…people rely on it so much that you can’t even say people can really do a boycott…
I agree it’s getting worst everyday.
The trains are too crowded and I haven’t seen any improvement.
Last week while I was driving I notice that their are more people riding their bikes. SMH!!!!!
I also ran over two of them. lol
LMAO Maje$ty shut up! i wish a had a scooter tho, fa real. i may have to switch my car 4 one, lol
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Way to put it into words, the trains are nuts. Scooter is too funny,i hope I see you on one, I thin kI’ll settle for a bike