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...MTA??s decision to drop tolls has been couched under the progressive rhetoric of giving long haul commuters a break. Gov. W. Mitt Romney has said that “the western drivers of Massachusetts have been ripped off,” and the abolition of tolls is his way of righting this wrong. But Romney has yet to suggest the means by which the funding for maintenance of highways provided by tolls will be replaced...
Even prior to the MTA??s request for proposals, Cablevision suspected foul play, according to Lynn. The MTA officials were negotiating exclusively with the Jets, without holding an open bidding process, Krieger says...
Unfortunately, Harris’s humor doesn’t approach the quality of classic campaign songs like 1949 Boston mayoral candidate Walter A. O’Brien’s “Charlie and the MTA?? or “Happy Days Are Here Again,” which Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904 and a former Crimson president, adopted during his first White House...
...cents and bus and subway fares by 33 percent. Hevesi said that $512 million in surplus was moved by MTA into the revenue column of later years. Another audit of NYC Transit found $850 million was mislabeled as operating expenses. These numbers are relatively large compared to MTA??s now quite dubious claim that it is looking at a $1 billion deficit over two years...
Today, the MTA??s successor, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), raises subway fares from 85 cents to one dollar. Even at a dollar the fare will remain one of the lowest in the nation, and the T’s announcement of its first fare hike in almost a decade met only half-hearted protest from environmental and transportation advocacy groups...
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