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New York to Slash Transit Service, Student Passes
The Wall Street Journal ^ | 12-18-09 | SUZANNE SATALINE

Posted on 12/17/2009 7:13:57 PM PST by GOP_Lady

The decision by New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority to sharply cut services to close a nearly $383 million deficit is the latest sign that the state will operate under harsh fiscal constraints in the coming year.

The proposed cuts, which would include shutting down two subway lines and slashing night and weekend hours on a system that operates around the clock, will be aired at several public hearings this winter. A final vote is planned in the spring by the board of the MTA, which manages transit systems in New York City and surrounding areas, including Long Island.

The measures are the latest sign of the fiscal woes in states across the country. The MTA said it must shrink service because New York lawmakers, facing a budget deficit, slashed annual subsidies to the MTA by $143 million. In addition, a recent court ruling ordered the authority to pay $541 million in wage increases to unionized workers over three years, according to an MTA spokesman.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: newyork; publictransit
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1 posted on 12/17/2009 7:13:58 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady
Funny - not one cut to a union salary, benefit or pension...
2 posted on 12/17/2009 7:18:20 PM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: GOP_Lady

Blame the unions for ever increasing pay raises.


3 posted on 12/17/2009 7:20:21 PM PST by Frantzie (Judge David Carter - democrat & dishonorable Marine like John Murtha.)
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To: 2banana

No, but union members will end up losing their jobs — about 700 of them (probably not all union).

The same thing is happening to my husband’s Transit Authority here in our city. The non-union members have taken two 3% pay cuts, but the union refused to.

The union even refused to take a one-week furlow to help with the shortfall and to save some jobs.


4 posted on 12/17/2009 7:23:11 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: Frantzie

My husband’s Transit Authority here in our city will be reducing service by 12% starting in April.


5 posted on 12/17/2009 7:24:00 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Oh great, getting to work will be swell.

I want out of this damn Communist city RFN.


6 posted on 12/17/2009 7:24:20 PM PST by wastedyears (You tell 'em I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me! - Wyatt Earp)
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To: GOP_Lady

And God forbid the city should dare fire union workers.

If I had it my way, contracts would be rewritten the first day in office. Unions don’t like it, they can leave. Permanently

Anybody that doesn’t like the contract can find another job.


7 posted on 12/17/2009 7:25:57 PM PST by wastedyears (You tell 'em I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me! - Wyatt Earp)
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To: GOP_Lady
I saw an interview with a borough President the other day about this and he was decrying the cuts. He gave some good suggestions on how to close the budget gap and stop the cuts:

They included a gasoline tax, car registration fee increase, toll increase, and on and on with more taxes and fees.

These people will simply not be happy until every successful person is forced out of the city.

8 posted on 12/17/2009 7:27:26 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: thefactor

These people actually thought that Obama would give them money.

In addition, people have been riding too cheaply for too long.


9 posted on 12/17/2009 7:30:08 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

I’m just wondering how fast NYC is going to revert to the lawless, graffiti-covered, trash-strewn hostile wasteland of long-ago memory...

Anyone seen my old tape of “Death Wish”?


10 posted on 12/17/2009 7:34:11 PM PST by sinanju
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To: GOP_Lady

There are tons of kids who go to schools miles away in another borough and they reek havoc in the subway system. The city is just one big babysitter to these idiot parents.


11 posted on 12/17/2009 7:41:08 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: sinanju

“Escape From New York” comes to mind as well.


12 posted on 12/17/2009 7:41:57 PM PST by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: GOP_Lady

Here in L.A. they opened the East L.A. corridor..

Now who-TF heads to East L.A.??


13 posted on 12/17/2009 7:47:20 PM PST by max americana (i)
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To: max americana

That sounds like a typical transit authority plan to me.

We have one similar line like that in our city.


14 posted on 12/17/2009 7:52:44 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: GOP_Lady

Which two subway lines are they talking about shutting down? The article doesn’t seem to say.


15 posted on 12/17/2009 7:56:08 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I’m sorry, but I don’t know. I’m not in NYC.

Like my husband’s transit authority here in our town, that, not doubt, has yet to be decided on/worked out.


16 posted on 12/17/2009 7:57:58 PM PST by GOP_Lady
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To: wastedyears

It’s too bad contracts don’t work that way. Otherwise it wouldn’t be a “contract” now would it?


17 posted on 12/17/2009 7:58:55 PM PST by Tensai
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To: Cicero

The redundant ones - the Z and the W, which are both covered by other trains (the J and the N).

However a couple of stations in lower manhattan will lose late night service altogether and be forced to close late nights.


18 posted on 12/17/2009 8:08:41 PM PST by beagleone
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To: GOP_Lady

Well they should just raise taxes again. :)


19 posted on 12/17/2009 9:09:42 PM PST by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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To: thefactor

“Fort Apache”


20 posted on 12/17/2009 10:19:47 PM PST by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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