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...Yorkers have a short memory, and right now they?re confronting not terrorists but higher taxes, higher subway fares and higher unemployment. Both New York City and State have billion dollar budget deficits. And it's not just New York that's in trouble. Virtually every state and city is facing budget gaps that they will have to raise taxes or cut services (or both) to cover. For many Americans, the federal tax cut will be offset by state and local governments raising rates to cover deficits and pay for growing costs like standardized testing of school kids and Homeland...
Consequently, the proposed move by the MBTA is illogical, even if purely for administrative reasons. The MBTA—the government agency that operates the Boston area mass transit system, including the subway, the trolleys, the buses and the commuter railroad—is a perennial money-loser. Fares are deliberately set below the break-even point in order to keep public transportation affordable for Boston’s poorest citizens; state tax revenues help keep the agency afloat. And with the state government facing a huge budget crisis, and the MBTA contemplating another fare hike, it is sheer folly...
Barrios, a Democrat who has been an outspoken opponent of the MBTA’s proposed subway fare hikes, said that the agency’s attempt to buy part of the contested land is “at best, confusing, at worst, Republican agencies in-fighting at the cost of taxpayers...
With this possibly unnecessary rise in subway and bus rates, many New Yorkers will seek refuge in the city’s yellow taxicabs. And in early February, New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg rightly decided to eliminate the voices that urge taxi passengers to buckle up when they get into the cab and take all their possessions when they leave. Despite reminders from such celebrities as Beverly Sills, Chris Rock and Elmo, the number of items left in cabs had not decreased since the voices were added in 1997. And, out of 4,000 surveyed patrons, 12 percent...
Cole said previous winners have submitted on subjects as varied as the Berlin Subway system, butterflies, chess, Chinese cooking and comic books...