Better get your platform shoes out! (New York, Albany: school, taxes, cost of)
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Because the 70s will be back!
The State of NY continues to betray us. The MTA says they are getting 200M less from the state than they expected, so more severe service cuts and fare hikes may be on the way. What's on the table? Eliminating bus and train service at night. NYC will no longer be the city that never sleeps. After 11pm, subways will run once an hour, and the LIRR and Metro-North will not run at all. EXPRESS SERVICE ON THE LIRR WILL BE ELIMINATED As for LIB, who knows what could be next, $5 fares, hourly service at all times and no service nights/sundays?
Are these idiots in Albany clueless or what? They're worried about the taxes and tolls of the Ravitch Plan, yet these cuts and fare hikes will be the death knell for NYC, and we'll plunge into the 1970s once again! Have these people learned anything?
It really is time to put the FEAR OF GOD into these people. We must defend the downstate area now!
PEOPLE WILL LEAVE NY IN DROVES, INCLUDING MYSELF!
Is that what you want Craig Johnson? David Paterson (who redistributed federal stimulus money away from the MTA)? Malcom Smith...do you want to see your city in the condition it was 33 years ago?
Albany...there is NO NEW YORK without NEW YORK CITY...GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK HEADED SKULLS OF YOURS AND DO SOMETHING!
People and businesses will leave this state, because they will no longer be able to get employees. STOP SUCKING SUV FUMES ALBANY AND WAKE UP OUT OF YOUR STUPER AND GET TO WORK. New York State Assembly
AS FOR THE MTA BOARD WHO VOTED FOR THESE CUTS AND FARE HIKES, HOW ABOUT DOING RIGHT BY MILLIONS OF NY'ers AND STOP THIS.
The Captain of a Ship is supposed to put his crew first, and you have let your "crew" down. Mitch Palley, Dale Hemmerdinger, you should have refused to balance the budget and sacrificed yourselves. A Captain recently lost his freedom for a while for doing just that, because he didn't want his crew being harmed. THE MTA BOARD HAS NO HONOR AND NO DIGNITY
This isn't just about fare hikes and service cuts, it's about saving Long Island and our planet. If you think the traffic is bad now, just wait until the end of this year! Please, TAKE ACTION NOW, BEFORE ITS TOO LATE!
Eliminating bus and train service at night. NYC will no longer be the city that never sleeps. After 11pm, subways will run once an hour, and the LIRR and Metro-North will not run at all. EXPRESS SERVICE ON THE LIRR WILL BE ELIMINATED
Do you have a link to the article mentioning this?
Well...i haven't seen the mention of the cuts mentioned from the OP but this is from the MTA website concerning LI bus:
Unlimited Ride MetroCards will not be accepted by LI Bus; Pay-Per-Ride MetroCard will be accepted.
NOW that part is really bananas -- we can't use unlimited metro cards anymore? Then what is the point? Pay-per-ride is good for a freaking day trip for a tourist but for people who go to work, go to school, go shopping, go to the doctor, whatever else and SOLELY rely on public transportation this is simply outrageous. I don't even want to imagine the cost of pay-per-ride NOW and the new fares haven't even gone into effect yet. absolutely shocking.
The time has come for us to stand up against the NYC MTA Fare Hike! Bring your
anger, frustration, signs and voices and let Albany, The Senators and the MTA
know how the fare hike will impact you!
Join us at Union Square South on Tuesday April, 28 2009 from 5:30pm-7:30pm.
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MTA protest on April 28th 2009 5:30 - 7:30pm
