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.
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What about all the revenue lost to fare beaters ? Fare-beaters account for 31.5% of all bus riders, more in certain nabes.
Five hundred million dollars – that's how much the Metropolitan Transportation Authority system is currently losing each year.
There is no mistake the attack on the middle class is deliberate !
I think this falls under the general definition of Diversity Equity and Inclusion. Enjoy New York if anybody deserves this it’s you the idiots.
Give me a break
Winner Winner chicken dinner. Tax Tax Tax and more Tax...
Stop trying to fix a broken leg with Billion $ Band-Aids.
Will revenues be strong in 2023, and 2024 when more high income earners will be moving out of the City (in part due to high taxes!), and tens of thousands of no-income migrants coming to the City? Or are you just interested in budgeting for now, and who cares about the future?
Will revenues be strong in 2023, and 2024 when more high income earners will be moving out of the City (in part due to high taxes!), and tens of thousands of no-income migrants coming to the City? Or are you just interested in budgeting for now, and who cares about the future?
You people are delusional. Office occupancy rates hover around 50% - WFH is the new reality which equals less commercial traffic and a diminished tax base. Moreover since 2019 HSPTA rent stabilized properties are defunded and will start defaulting on mortgages and taxes.
I like a lot of the Passenger Alliance suggestions, but tolling the East River crossings are almost as bad as congestion pricing.
They should have done this years ago. Of course the car totalitarians will whine and complain, but who cares.
I love how these assholes have wish lists about spending other people's money but not their's.
These morons never cease to amaze me with their pie in the sky spending schemes. Everything for free for everyone except the money to pay for it.
"car totalitarians" You sound like a fool when you write that. What about those darn trains and walkable cities… sneaky (((neomarxist))) central planning ? Hitler was Times Magazines (Car Hating) Person of the year after all...
Horrific subway attacks in New York has people fearful of returning to work
but people telling me taking the bus instead of my car is better for the environment are the real nazis! They want to take away my freedom to not ride with the dangerous criminals!
Crime is the most urgent issue facing New York City/Blue cities today.
Demandments of the Inner Slog
As sitting is the new smoking, transit riders must always stand to avoid bladder flappers and beaner skid marks.
Never mind those who shower with their clothes on lest they disrepect their homies.
Punish vendors who sell dust mite remedies for bed bugs
Pedestrians will cross busy intersections with underground concourses. Parades will take place in parks, not streets. Cyclists must dismount at busy intersections. Drivers who force cyclists into illegalities will lose licenses. Anyone using the wrong (left) side of the stairs will be banned from the subway for a month. Anyone feeding pigeons will be forced to drink a full cup of their fresh droppings.
Commercial trash must be stored, if not moved, underground.
Crossing tolls and transit fare will be congestion priced proportional to number of users in the previous two hours. Subway should be twelve bucks at 7:30 am & Pm and one buck at 1:30 pm & am.
That's real congestion pricing. It would fix the subway overload!
Schools and libraries will be replaced with free wimax services.
Tax older energy guzzling cars and appliances.
No curbside delivery during rush hours. All inner city taxis (medallion and ride share) must be electric. Air conditioning should only use solar power (if you keep it cool during the day, it will be cooler at night).
Build a loop subway at the city half-radius connecting retail workers with major malls.
An uninterrupted LI-NJ tunnel as well as east-west cross-Manhattan underground highways will be built.
Thrice-lost homeless will be implanted with GPS and infusion pumps.
Cameras will track panhandlers, performers and vagrants on trains and stations.
Well YOU can thank the people of nyc who voted for garbage
The sooner they get rid of cars the better!!!!!!!!!
How does anyone live here?
mta- money taking agency.
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