MTA fare hike?

Question

Why are NY'ers so upset by a .25 MTA fare hike, YES it's a hike but it's just now an extra quarter out of your pocket, people should be happy it's not a buck or two ... god forbid

Answer 1

I work for MTA and I'm gonna say they wanna raise the fare because of the rider if some stop jumping or beating there fares. If people stop treating the trains and buses like there garbage's they would have to hire and extra 500 cleaners which they are doing now, If they stop destroying things that have to be replaced etc etc people don't realize the more damage they do the more it cost the MTA and they have to pay for it some kinda way dont u think....

Answer 2

NY'er are upset because they want to know where all this money is going. The MTA squanders hundreds of millions of dollars. One year they are showing huge deficits, the next huge surpluses. There is something very wrong with the management there.
Also, that 25 cents adds up fast. The extra $10 a month is a lot of money to some people. And that's if they use the subway only twice a day on weekdays. On top of that, they are taking about fair hikes on the commuter rail lines.

NYer's shouldn't be GRATEFUL that it's only .25 . We should DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY from the MTA.

Answer 3

The entire MTA Board should be sent to Guantanamo and introduced to the pleasures of waterboarding before finally being shot. You are wrong about there being no service cuts. Several bus lines are being cut (again I might add about the one that stops a few steps from my front door). I'm a Staten Islander, but what is HEET? Tolls "only" increase 10%? Well above the current rate of inflation. The MTA is said to own 30,000 properties around the city. Let them sell a few or raise rent on tenants. One building I saw in the news on Jay Street has been vacant for at least ten years, while the MTA rents space two blocks away. The MTA Board should be elected, and their complete records should be open 24 hours a day to anyone who wants to look.

Answer 4

We're upset, like the first poster mentioned, because MTA is so mis-managed. They hike fares up and meanwhile, 90% of the trains and stations in this city are falling apart. I don't remember the last time I was in a station that wasn't falling apart due to lack of repairs. Another example--they're spending millions trying to figure out how to space cars on the L train. Millions of dollars! Just to experiment with train spacing.

If they're going to hike our fares, let's see some progress on our decaying 100 year old system.

Answer 5

i agree with the others who have complained about the MTA, but they are only half the problem.

the other half is labor, the TWU, etc. those who work for transit are certainly hamstrung by the limits of what management has given them, like not enough trains, and all that, but labor hasn't taken care to use those limited tools wisely. the problem is that the people who work for transit come from cultures that do not value efficiency and good customer service as much as we would like.

if they did, then you would never see an express train close its doors just when a local is opening theirs on the opposite platform. or doors close on a crowd of people who are obviously still needing to get in. or a door closing on a person and never opening again to the point that that person will have gotten a bruise somewhere.

the argument is all about the "schedule", but the "schedule" be damned if it would make better sense for people to ride that particular #2 train to the bronx instead of having to wait another 10+ minutes for the next one, all because that #2 was pulling out of 96th street just as the #1 was pulling in!

it's pretty clear to me that as much as management probably do not ride the subways and busses to work, labor certainly does not ride the system when most of us do, that is during the morning and evening rush.

it's fine for them to operate at any level of efficiency or lack thereof they want, but let's not make any pretenses about it!

Answer 6

Because the money is funny. No accountability. The MTA is ALWAYS looking for an increase of $$$$$$$ and the service stays the same.