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- MS-13 member convicted for attack on Flushing teen
- Veteran corrections officer finally gets promoted
- Malba's traffic problem
- Another hospital on its last leg
- LIC not a fan of subway fans
- Drunk driver that killed 2 gets 7 1/2 years
- Illegal alien extorted landlord
- Brooklyn's wall of crap
- Interesting use of cocktail umbrellas...
- Lead paint found in Throgs Neck Bridge Park
- Sales tax collection down
- Why campaign finance reform is a joke
- FDNY inspector accused of faking Queens boiler checks
- Rockaway ferry service is kaput
- Parking sucks in Sunnyside
- City makes convenient repairs
- Paterson aide took football tickets from developer
- Flushing corner clinic on hold...for now
- Howard Beach church robbed
- Charlie says he's not going anywhere
- Paterson will not run or step down
- TDC puts on dog-and-pony show in Flushing
- Subway station overhauls announced
- Pols want Dave to go
- Short or Grande?
- Eroded beaches symbolic of our entire city
- Peter Vallone: Overdevelopment crusader
- Push to preserve more affordable housing
- Realtor connecting people with illegal apartments
- Trestle crumbling on Woodhaven Blvd
- Sorry, Charlie!
- Turning the heat up on the Trib
- Zazi's high school buddies indicted
- Paterson pulling the plug on public hospitals
- Little Neck Parkway in the snow
- Wasn't Bloomberg creating 400,000 jobs?
- Affordable housing units falling apart at the seams
- EDC demolishes Coney Island history
- Honest graft in the Bronx
- The eyesore ambulance
- Po-Ling publicly polls horse's ass
- Buh-bye!
- Bayswater State Park to close
- Taxpayer money for nothing and TVs for free
- New York's Puerto Ricans must get new birth certif...
- City is dishing out the dough
- Tell the State Legislature to Protect Our Environment
- When will we finally bury Queen Catherine?
- Subway ridership is really down
- Self-certification = garage curb cut in crosswalk
- Judge overturns convictions in deaths of firefighters
- NYS DMV workers willing to sell IDs to terrorists
- Park vs. parking lot in Douglaston
- Because what LIC really needs is 900 more units...
- Paterson just a big, lazy loser
- Iconic tower nixed from WTC plan
- Joe Bruno's pals still got city contracts
- Jamaica bodega owners fear robbery crew
- Act fast or someone else may take her!
- Sears to GOP: Thanks, but no thanks
- ACORN folds countrywide
- Flushing terrorism suspect to plead guilty
- Video shows snow plow hitting cars
- Rehabilitated owl released at Alley Pond
- You might be waiting awhile for your state tax refund
- Is it the CB from hell or the residents from hell?
- Feds talking with losing bidders in Aqueduct probe
- 10 ways Congress is letting you down
- Avella announces his run against Padavan
- Stalled Flushing site an eyesore for years
- Bayside restaurant owner charged in double murder
- And the winner of the chairmanship is..
- The case of the stolen Greyhound bus
- Queens is healthiest borough in the city
- Two tiny nabes finally get sewers
- Bearak resigns as prez of Queen Civic Congress
- Peter Vallone's overcrowding plan
- A new approach to day laborer problem
- "Like a wig made out of garbage"
- Sears to run as Republican in special election
- More voters unhappy with Bloomberg
- Joe Crowley's recovery plan
- LIC residents express frustration with MTA
- Dog & owner get sidewalk shock in Far Rockaway
- State Parks & Historic sites to close
- Census already over budget
- New park for Bronx kids 3 1/2 years in the making
- Landlord throws 92-year old tenant's possessions i...
- The rallying cry: Fewer trees! More community bo...
- Husband finally arrested in Woodhaven murder
- This just in...Monster-rat is still out!
- More like this, please!
- It's Bloomturd's world (we just live in it)
- Quinn focuses on jobs she helped destroy
- EDC dropping convention center from Willets Point ...
- LPC making an exception this time
- St. Vincent's failure foreshadowing things to come
- A cigar for anyone who can explain this
- The science of winterizing a fig tree
- New council transportation chair talks common sense
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11 comments:
Well I'll tell you were I went. I bought a motorcycle and ride that everywhere. My commute from work has dropped from one hour with the subway to 15 minutes by motorbike.
Everytime they raise the fare, people find other ways to travel. My friend walks over the 59th street bridge to get to work (weather permitting). People carpool to the city. Everone is fed up and a lot of people don't have the money for another fare increase. Lower the fare during non-peak hours and people will take advantage of the lower fare.
Maspeth mom says...
With unemployment around 10% of course there are less riders. Does Bloombut think that people are rididng the train into the city to go to museums and theatre with all their free time. What a troll!!
They are setting us up for a rate hike!
Also there are a LOT of people out of work!!!!
bloomburg has billions of dollars and he is closing hospitals and fire houses. And wont give a cent to the mta money gap. He has no reason to have third term or be a mayor in general.
with all the unlicensed and faked credential ,so called, motorists traveling in the metropolitan area be very cautious. the motor bike rider can be easily killed or disabled permanently.
n.y.u./Rusk Institute claims most of the paralyzed patients are motor bike riders.
ridership is down but subway is more crowded and more expensive?
The way out for MTA is to declare bankruptcy and pay its pampered union employees fair wages (fair as in what they would get in the private sector).
Otherwise, the MTA should be abolished and the transit system contracted out to private companies.
MTA wages and pensions is a luxury the local private sector cannot afford to pay for.
Thank you for your time.
Privative the MTA. We've had multiple fare increases, yet they still can't balance their budget. Call the Disney Organization. They manage to move people on a daily basis and turn a profit. With the amount of people using the subways, buses and railroads, there is no reason why the MTA should be in the red.
The subway trains were originally run by private concerns and they weren't any better at extracting money from the system while keeping the fares down.
The reality is that private ownership would be even more expensive per ride as owners sought to make a profit from a creaking 100-year old system. The only thing private owners could provide would be political deniability .
There is a framework of privately run utilities, who are supposed to make a controlled profit while providing fair priced services.
They can do this only if their employees are paid market rates.
The problem with MTA is that its workers are making 2-4 times market wages, then make six figure pensions.
Who is paying for this? Look in the mirror.
Of course the unions will threaten and blackmail and that's what they are good at.
The other alternative is to continue this path and continue to encourage young and productive people who are not able to work for state unions to leave.
Remember that the private sector pays for all these shenanigans.
People are sick of the hikes, excuuses, less service and have voted with their feet. Another hike will likely see ridership go down even further as warm weather approaches, people will walk. Many are done with subways.
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