Wednesday Blogwrap
Renovations at Brooklyn Public Library Macon Branch [BSB] Celebrate National Running Day [ILFA] An Elephant Dies in Coney Island [ENY] New ‘Smart Card’ System Could Spell Doom for MetroCard [Daily Intel] Potential for Traffic Conflict? [AYR] Mickey on Manhattan Ave. Photo by xbettyx.
Renovations at Brooklyn Public Library Macon Branch [BSB]
Celebrate National Running Day [ILFA]
An Elephant Dies in Coney Island [ENY]
New ‘Smart Card’ System Could Spell Doom for MetroCard [Daily Intel]
Potential for Traffic Conflict? [AYR]
Mickey on Manhattan Ave. Photo by xbettyx.
The MTA is simply a bunch of crooks, and they have been for quite some time.
http://tinyurl.com/2dq4nz2
$239,000 Conductor Among M.T.A.’s 8,000 Six-Figure Workers
Yet they have a budget shortfall of 400 million. We lost 20% of our staff last year despite making money and no one gets a gtd pension.
Keep raising my taxes!
Let’s get back to the real problem here, how does the MTA have money for a new, expensive computerized card system? Funny, they don’t have money to maintain fares and need to raise them! Funny, they don’t have money to maintain decent service and have to cut subway lines and bus routes! Funny, they don’t have money to maintain station cleanliness or upgrades and so have to let them go to pieces! Funny, they don’t have money to clean graffiti / scratch-ffiti from trains and windows! BUT NOW, they have money to implement a new automated card system! To hell with the new system and get back to what people really want, maintaining fares, lines, bus routes and cleanliness and safety on the New York transit system.
You give big jugs a bad name – and that’s very hard to do.
and seriously… hating on check cashing places is rather lame.. yeah they charge you an arm and a leg (like 1.5 percent) which in all honestly isnt THAT bad, but when the rent is due or youre kids need food what the hell are you going to do? they dont prey upon people like crazy ass banks with ridiculous mortgages do, the stock market, and other such things… it’s a fact of life. believe it or not some people really do live check to check and they make best to provide for their families (or in my case at times my dog) ever been paid via check on a day the bank isnt open for a few days? eeeeks!
*rob*
and judging by your screenname youre probably a stripper in midtown west who pays no taxes and rakes in 1000s of dollars a week. okay that comment was off the cuff, but still, you really really really have no idea what the TRUE working class do to make it in this city with that kind of comment. i wish it wasnt like 830 right now so the conversation could continue, but oh well. i doubt you’d care..
*rob*
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Yet another droning lecture from the long-winded Montrose Morris. Just as some employers force workers to leave the middle ages and sign up for direct deposit, this would force people to join the 21st century and open a bank account
im not one to fight other peoples battles, but are you kidding me? i dont even have direct deposit at work, i dont have a credit card cuz *newsflash* i cant qualify for one anymore, and i’ve only had a working real bank account for 4 years, and im many rungs above what many MANY working class people do who ride the subway all the time. you probably dont see them because you either have the luxury to work from home or a coffee shop or you dont work the hours that some people DO take the subway who do that kinda stuff.. im talking 4 am, midnight, not cushy 9-5 hours like many of us are accustomed to.
*rob*
“You did say “working people”, so there’s no reason they can’t open an account.”
I know plenty of working people who cannot get a checking account. Why? Bad credit. Bad credit for varying reasons from financial irresponsibility to being bankrupted from crippling medical bills. Maybe check cashing places do have rip-off level fees, but for many, they have no choice. So no, not everyone can get a checking account.
Yet another droning lecture from the long-winded Montrose Morris. Just as some employers force workers to leave the middle ages and sign up for direct deposit, this would force people to join the 21st century and open a bank account. You did say “working people”, so there’s no reason they can’t open an account. Also, I’m surprised that you are defending check-cashing places, which charge fees even higher than banks and rip off poor people a la payday loans or rent-a-centers.