A booming budget deficit and vanishing financial aid continue to jeopardize the MTA’s short and possibly long term projects, and according to sources, the Agency is now considering a $2 to $3 billion cut in the capital plan.
Station improvements such as paint jobs and signal upgrades may be cut. However, straphangers in Manhattan and Brooklyn would bear the brunt of the cutbacks.
“We’re being squeezed from the gas to the MTA to everything,” said Cheryl Miller from the Upper West Side.
“I personally feel the MTA is making too much money as it is, cause it is going to keep raising prices and everything is still going to stay the same, like, they’re not going to improve the subways,” Kew Gardens resident Matthew Brooks said.
News of the proposed budget cuts are just another bad note in what’s turning out to be a rather depressing tune. The MTA is already considering a fare hike for the second consecutive year.
“Everything you now got to pay for is going up anyway. MTA rides, all of that is a problem,” said Bed-Stuy resident Atika Greene.
(Source: CBS2 HD)
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THIS IS ABSOLUTELY INSANE!!! THE MTA IS MAKING ENOUGH MONEY AS IT IS ALREADY. EVERY OTHER TIME THEY PROMISED THEY WOULD MAKE IMPROVEMENTS WHEN THEY RAISED THE FARE, AND NO IMPROVEMENTS WERE MADE. HOW DOES BLOOMBERG EXPECT PEOPLE TO LIVE, WHEN THEY TELL YOU TAKE “MASS TRANSIT” WHEN THE FARE’S ARE UNBELIVABLE SUCH A HIGH FARE. INSTEAD OF RAISING THE FARES, HAVE THE BUS DRIVERS STOP WASTING GAS AND FUEL BY LETTING THE BUSSES RUN CONSTANTLY WHEN THEY ARE PARKED OR NO IN SERVICE. ONCE THE TRANSIT FARES GGO UP, SO WILL THE TOLLS AS WELL, AND SOON THE VERAZANO NARROWS BRIDGE WILL BE $20 TO RIDE IT. SOMEBODY’S GOT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS. EVERYTHING IS GOING UP IN THE WORLD, SO WHY CAN’T OUR SALARIES GO UP EITHER. PRESIDENT BUSH, GOVERNON PATTERSON, MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG….. DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS… DO NOT LET EVERYONE MAKE THEIR HOUSE GO FOR FORCLOUSURE AND IN THE END FILE BANKRUPTCY. WHAT THIS WORLD IS COMING TO… IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY!!!!
Time to clean out the Board of Directors there.
almost like the cost of a postage stamp vs. driving across town to deliver your item. -L dafka
Time to take out the old bikes from the basement……..
If it were privatized & there was competition I’m sure they’d be able to provide rides for $1. But then 1/2 the people working for the MTA would get fired & they’d be screaming not fair