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Keep in mind the RT fare for a peak LIRR passenger going to eastern Nassau or Suffolk is in the 300/mo range and those trains are standing room only every day.
Keep in mind the bridge and tunnel toll income.
Keep in mind the income from ads on the subway/buses, in the subway/buses/lirr.
Keep in mind the infrastructure and equipment that hasn't been seriously upgraded in decades ie- no subway schedule signs until the last 5 years, buses with 1/2 a million miles on them, dirty ass subway stations.
Things like this are exactly why I'm getting a car.
I can't commit myself to government-controlled travel schedules. Sure I use public transportation occasionally, but I couldn't fathom my entire life being beholden to any public transportation system, much less NYC's disgusting excuse for one.
"The law does not apply to Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Staten Island Railway employees, whom are subjected to the jurisdiction of the Federal Railway Labor Act of 1926."
those at the MTA are really really really LEECHES
both the management and the union workers.
we both know they want to increase fares and their war on those owning a car.
increase car insurance rates to obscene levels if you live in nyc.
and they control the price of tolls forcing commutes to be extremely expensive.
"The law does not apply to Long Island Rail Road, Metro-North Railroad and Staten Island Railway employees, whom are subjected to the jurisdiction of the Federal Railway Labor Act of 1926."
Long Island RR was once part of the PRR. Metro-North was cobbled together from New York Central, Erie-Lackawanna, New Haven and later Conrail RRs.
Every job in the MTA has a top pay of over 25 an hour. Some makes over 30 an hour wonder how much money there looking for.
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