Word: mta
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...denounced these deals and said that the provision would be removed from the tax law or substantially limited. A well-organized lobby, though, has mounted a campaign to keep the leasing tax break. One organization fighting for it is the New York State Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Last year the MTA sold 598 buses and ten commuter rail cars for more than $15 million to Metromedia. The MTA now leases the buses and cars from the communications conglomerate...
...system seems closer to stopping dead in its tracks than New York City's, the largest in the nation with 5 million daily passengers. With an operating deficit of $500 million for this fiscal year, the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) two weeks ago upped subway and bus fares from 60? to 75? and raised the prices of commuter tickets on Conrail and the Long Island Railroad by an average of 25%. The MTA also threatened to hike fares to $1 by mid-July unless the state legislature covered an estimated shortfall of $331 million The legislature...
...building the fence. But with the MTA, do you know what they have to do before they build the fence? They have to have an R.F.P.?Request for Proposal...
...Briggs Hall she doesn't actually get much in the way of visions. It is this which prompts her to goto the movies. In the warm, popcorn-smelling dark of a movie theater her mission is always real. An auto da fe at the entrance to the Harvard MTA station seems not out of the question. All that stands between her and sainthood is daylight
...make matters still worse, New York has been facing a congressional mandate to equip subway stations and buses for the handicapped. The MTA estimates that this would cost $1.4 billion over the next 30 years, plus $100 million a year in operating funds. The Reagan Administration may relent and allow New York to provide special but separate facilities for the handicapped...