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View Poll Results: Which would you rather see the MTA do?
Raise the fare, and maintain all services as-is. 56 53.85%
Cut service, but not raise the fare. 17 16.35%
Close the subway between 3-5am, with no fare increases or regular service cuts. 31 29.81%
Voters: 104. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-12-2012, 08:41 PM
 
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This isn't hard to figure out.

The MTA can price fares just below the cost of car ownership. The MTA runs about $1250 per year nowadays. How much does owning a car run? Theres a lot of spread for the MTA to capture. Lol

They have their customers by the balls and they know it. The only thing holding them back is city politics.
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Old 10-12-2012, 09:58 PM
 
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Tax the beggars. Should result in a tidy profit. Imagine a beggar coming through you car asking for a quarter, a dollar, anything you can spare. And when he reaches the middle a plainclothes MTA revenue agent pulls out his badge and demands he turn over 50% of whatever he's carrying.
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Old 10-12-2012, 10:14 PM
 
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Neither,

Slash the pay of management. Before ANY fare increase demand the publishing of ever person and his earnings in the MTA employ making more than $$75,000 in 2011 in the NY Times and Online.

Disclose also the recipients of every private contract negotiated in 2011 worth over $100,000.

Let the public be armed with the FACTS and then let the MTA try to cry poverty.
The MTA is top heavy!
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