MTA Postponing Rehabs of Many Brooklyn Stations
Yesterday the MTA announced it will delay the renovation of 19 subway stations around the city, the bulk of which are in Brooklyn. (Runner-up: The Bronx.) The biggest rehab that’s biting the dust, at least for now, is the overhaul of the Smith-9th station. Renovations of a number of stations on the D/M line are…
Yesterday the MTA announced it will delay the renovation of 19 subway stations around the city, the bulk of which are in Brooklyn. (Runner-up: The Bronx.) The biggest rehab that’s biting the dust, at least for now, is the overhaul of the Smith-9th station. Renovations of a number of stations on the D/M line are also being put on hold. To me, a cut is a cut is a cut, said Gene Russianoff, the staff lawyer for the Straphangers Campaign, a transit advocacy group. Their spin is that they’re deferrals, but they’re deferred into no man’s land. MTA chief executive Elliot G. Sander said the postponements are coming because the authority doesn’t know how it’s going to afford the service improvements it’s already started, and that the MTA is facing a budget shortfall due, in large part, to a falloff in tax revenue from real estate transactions.
M.T.A. Cuts Delay Some Big Projects Until 2010 [NY Times]
Graphic from The New York Times.
You think Polemicist has an informed, enlightened argument? “Given the huge demand for public transit in this city – it only makes sense to raise fairs.
Decades of deferred maintenance have taken a big toll on the system, and people have gotten a heavily discounted ride for way too long. Raise the fair!”
Public transportation is for everyone- but the majority of people who use it are poor or middle class because you supposed rich types are still driving your SUVs. So you get a guy who works in maintenence and he’s making mabe 10-15$ an hour. He’s the guy who is going to get screwed with a fare hike. Not Mr. SUV. And by an agency that wastes so much money it is unbelieveable. (How ’bout those lifetime free passes, hey?)
Heavily discounted? By who? Not only does Polemecist have serious difficulty with facts, he thinks like Ann Coulter with a 2 digit IQ.
9:55 writes…”the MTA seems a perfect storm of incompetence, cronyism, unnion intransigence, and declining revenues”
That about sums it up.
Ever notice that the most inefficient businesses and the ones that were always on the verge of bankruptcy were totally unionized…steel, autos, airlines, MTA, post office, etc., etc., etc.
It’s cheap to rant against someone brave enough to sign in under a known moniker when you are a chicken-shit Guest.
To the topic, the MTA seems a perfect storm of incompetence, cronyism, unnion intransigence, and declining revenues. Something’s gotta give!
9:44 – Just because someone can’t spell doesn’t mean they are uninformed. Your arguments on the other hand, are just unenlightened.
Let’s see.. Why you ask? When a sale is recorded you pay a “MTA Tax” on that sale. The amount of sales are falling (See Case Shiller) and that creates a short fall. No sales no money.
BTW You Atlantic Yards Asshats take note…..
The What
Someday this war is gonna end…
Ah, nice to see polemicist ranting stupidity again.
It’s FARES, moron, not fairs!
Fares are fees you pay for services, fairs are places where people like you buy tee shirts and finger food. Sheesh- and you think you’re a Brooklyn policy pundit? Uneducated, ungrammatical, and uninformed.
It’s time to cut these ALL of these guys loose and install new MTA management from the top on down.
They had a ONE BILLION DOLLAR surplus two years ago, they keep jacking up fares, and they continue to waste gobs of money. (One can only wonder where the money goes at the MTA.)
Where is our Governor in all of this? It’s his responsibility!
Given the huge demand for public transit in this city – it only makes sense to raise fairs.
Decades of deferred maintenance have taken a big toll on the system, and people have gotten a heavily discounted ride for way too long. Raise the fair!
Does Gene Russianoff realize that money doesn’t appear out of the thin air?