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...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
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...
...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...