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...neither (I hope). A close examination of the MBTA’s proposed changes reveals a reasonable and well-justified fare increase that actually serves the public interest. Far from an example of racist disregard for low-income riders, the MBTA’s new fare structure will in fact benefit those who truly depend on the system by taxing occasional riders and streamlining multimodal transit. On the whole, the Authority’s revised system of charges represents both a thoughtful and a progressive model for public transit pricing in a mid-sized city...
Although many have challenged the necessity of a fare increase, there are few who can reasonably dispute that the MBTA is facing a budget crisis of gargantuan proportions. Like public transit agencies across the country, the MBTA is reliant on sales taxes, in addition to the fares it collects and the fees it earns from advertisements, to fund its operating budget. Unfortunately, it has seen revenues fall radically short of projected levels, and has had to rely on stopgap bonds from the state government to stay afloat. Adding to the challenge is the 27 percent of its budget the organization...
...Although fares will jump substantially when the new fare structure is introduced in 2007, a ride on the T will still cost less than one on most other cities’ mass transit systems. Even after these increases, MBTA fares––currently among the lowest in the country—will still be at or below fare levels in other major and mid-sized cities including New York, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and Pittsburgh...
...most commendable element of the MBTA’s proposed fare increases isn’t their relative moderation; it’s their remarkable fairness. While the cost of the bus alone will rise by $0.35, and the subway by $0.45, bus-to-subway transfers will be included in the price of a subway ride, meaning that the cost to those who commute downtown and need to take a bus to get to a subway station will actually fall from $2.15 to $1.70. Many of Boston’s lowest-income residents fall in this category; these system users?...
...Harvard students, who live along a subway line and use the T only occasionally, the MBTA’s proposed fare restructuring may seem to be little more than an inconvenience. But those with a social conscience should shelve their self-interested frustration—or misplaced altruism—and support a fare structure that will make the T both economically viable and fairer, even if they don’t work for the MBTA...