Word: mta
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...system need rehabilitation more than New York City. Its subways are a filthy, Dantesque netherworld, plagued not merely by delays (one train in every ten is late) but by violent crime (18 murders, 12,000 muggings, robberies and other felonies in the past year). The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) carries one of every six people using public transit in the entire nation. The city cannot function without it. During a ten-day strike last spring, New York firms lost about $100 million in sales each workday...
After the 1980 strike, the MTA, already running $400 million in the red, raised the fare from 50? to 60?. Even without a cutback in federal funding, the price of a token could rise to $ 1 by summer. One survey shows that 50% of New York's riders would willingly pay the dollar if it would mean safer, more efficient service. But the higher fare is unlikely to bring any such improvements. Although the massive system would cost $55 billion to replace, only $300 million a year is being spent on rehabilitation and improvement, $700 million short of what...
...Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) will hold a rally March 28 in front of the state capitol to protest cuts in aid to cities caused by Proposition...
...This is not just a teacher's event or a public service employees event," Steve K. Wollmer, an MTA spokesman, said yesterday, adding that the rally will focus on how the tax cuts caused by the passage of Proposition 2 1/2 will effect every state resident. "I expect tens of thousands" of people to attend the demonstration and demand that the State legislature rescind some of the cuts brought about by the Proposition," Wollmer said...
...MTA can march on the State House, on City Hall, or into the sea for all I care." Barbara Anderson, the executive, director of Citizens for Limited Taxation, a pro-Proposition 2 1/2 organization, said yesterday...