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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...
...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...
Several CLT members stressed that they won despite having less campaign money than their opponnets, who included municipal unions, the League of Women Voters and the MTA...