Happy June 30th

Lobbyist borg submits amicus brief in defense for the congestion pricing tax

 

SDNY

State legislators fantasy MTA fix

 

Queens Post 

New York City lawmakers and public transport advocates held a rally in Albany on Tuesday, Feb. 14, calling on the state to pass a finance bill worth nearly $11 billion that they say would fully fund the MTA through 2026 and make it more efficient.

The legislation, known as Fix the MTA, would also keep current subway fares at $2.75 and prevent a proposed 25 cents hike to $3.

It would also make bus rides throughout the city free by 2027 and aims to make services more frequent and reliable — by ensuring subways and most buses arrive at least every six minutes, every day of the week.

The largest portion of the package, around $4.6 billion, would essentially bail out the agency by plugging its forecasted budget deficit for the next four years, while nearly $2 billion would go towards increasing bus services across the system by 20 percent.

Around $1.4 billion would be allocated to the agency to account for a 27% dip in ridership numbers compared to 2019 levels.

Fun fact: nothing is mentioned about congestion pricing. And it's mostly hedging on

State Senators Michael Gianaris, Jessica Ramos, John Liu and Kristen Gonzalez were among the Queens lawmakers who attended the rally, while Assembly members Zohran Mamdani, Alicia Hyndman Juan Ardila, and Jessica González-Rojas were also present. Assembly member Robert Carroll from Brooklyn and Assembly member Tony Simone from Manhattan also attended.

They were joined by transportation advocate groups such as Riders Alliance, the Permanent Citizens Advisory Committee to the MTA and Transportation Alternatives.

 Jesus Christ these cults are just never going to go away, as a public duty I present the counterpoint plan from Passengers United who actually ride the buses and the trains everyday with their proposal to "fix the MTA" which also includes public safety measures for transit workers, something the Albany fauxgressives and the moneyed transportation actorvates never bother to acknowledge.

 

 

 

 

Transportation Alternatives Jim Burke calls the cops on fellow mass transit advocate during rally for bus services

TransAlt's capo Jim Burke is very powerful and very protected. Here Riders Alliance's shady CEO Betsy Plum pushes Charlton away from him and at the "trick or streets" announcement, Donovan Richards and Catalina Cruz shoved fingers in citizen's faces when they confronted him about his false gay bash allegations against a rival and gay community leader. The public really needs to know more about this guy, because he sure likes to lie about people threatening him.

Try to follow the Riders Alliance money

 

This is Elizabeth Plum, also known as Betsy Plum. She's the executive director of Riders Alliance, the transit concern organization that was featured in those videos of them bullying a fellow transit concern organization member from asking them questions during an event they held where they proposed they were going to save commuting in NYC. 

What's interesting about R.A. is how they became such a big influencer about all things transit (and now plan to expand that influence in housing and policing), especially when looking at their tax forms.

 

 

 Riders Alliance sure pulled in a lot of moolah in such a short time span during a pandemic. But what's going on with Elizabeth Plum here? She's the only full time worker on this list and claims to have made no money as the boss?

Riders Alliance hold public assembly for their transit plan and claim it's a private event as they try to kick out a commuter activist

What happened to public space for people???

Freedom News Network has an even better angle of the bullying by Fascist Riders Alliance

Here's Fascist Riders Alliance again trying to oppress this genuine riders advocate from filming a car they were using to get to their public assembly private events. Funny with all their talk about transit equity and demands to people to give up their cars, they cruise around from town to town contributing to car culture and traffic congestion

That woman, who appears to be RA's executive director Betsy Plum's muscle and chaffeur, seems to be confused because license plates and the cars they are affixed to is actually public information.