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| DATE | 2010-11-01 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Speaking of Local News
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In case anyone didn't notice, the MTA fares are going up AGAIN, and it
is ticking me off. More than anything else in NYC, the MTA is the most
likely thing to drive me out of NYC.
There was this puss peace in todays edition of Metro NY which just
turned my stomach. I'll repost the story here for you in order to
understand the problem:
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It.s the year 2022. A woman boards the 7-train at 34th Street and 11th
Avenue and takes it to Citi Field for a Mets game.
She enters the subway by merely tapping her smart card; she doesn.t even
need to take it out of her purse.
And on the way to the game, she can check voice mail and e-mail
underground, since the whole system now has Wi-Fi and cell phone
service.
There.s just one catch: Her unlimited MetroCard costs $171 a month.
Since 1998, the price of a 30-day unlimited MetroCard has jumped 65
percent. If the MTA keeps increasing the fare at that rate, riders would
pay $171 for a monthly MetroCard 12 years from now.
.It.s certainly within the realm of possibility,. said Gene Russianoff
of the Straphangers Campaign. .It.s not unfair to extrapolate that
figure in the next decade from what we.ve seen..
.Once people hear the horror of that number, maybe the Legislature may
react and actually do something,. said MTA board member Andrew Albert.
9 Things to expect of the MTA by the year 2022
1 Riders will connect to 10 lines at the Fulton Street Transit Center,
including the R and the PATH train.
2 Every station will have countdown clocks that tell you when the next
train arrives.
3 All 277 underground stations will have cell and Wi-Fi service.
4 First phase of the Second Avenue subway is finished. East Siders can
ride the Q from 63rd Street to 96th Street.
5 LIRR riders can go direct to Grand Central Terminal. Metro-North.s
Hudson and New Haven lines stop at Penn Station.
6 Swiping MetroCards is a memory. All subways and buses read smart
cards.
7 The 7 train has two new stops: 34th Street and 11th Avenue and 41st
and 10th Avenue.
8 Moynihan Station, an extension of Penn Station, is open.
9 Still no ARC tunnel from New Jersey to Penn Station. .Even if there.s
a sea change in the political atmosphere, that tunnel wouldn.t be
completed by 2020,. said Russianoff.
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Now this is the problem. The GOD DAMN MTA is KILLING US WITH THERE
STUPID CAPITAL PLANS. Did they NOTICE THE RECESSION.
* I DON'T WANT SIGNS TO TELL ME WHEN THE NEXT TRAIN IS COMING
* I DON'T WANT THE DAMN LIRR TO GRAND CENTRAL STATION FOR 15 BILLION
DOLLARS
* I DON'T WANT TO REPLACE THE METROCARDS AND REPLACE ALL THE DAMN
TURNSTYLES - IN FACT I DON'T WANT THE DAMN METROCARDS
* I DON'T WANT A SUPERSTATION AT FULTON STREET.
* I DON'T WANT THE 7 TRAIN to THE JAVITZ CENTER
* I DON'T WANT THE PENN STATION EXTENTION
* I SERIOUSLY DON'T WANT GOD DAMN WIFI ON THE SUBWAY. IN FACT I DON'T
WANT YOU TALKING ON YOUR DAMN PHONE WHILE I'M RIDING THE TRAIN and
READING
* I DON'T WANT A DAMN TUNNEL TO NJ
- Also unmentioned is that I DON'T WANT A DAMN TOLL ON THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE
- I DON'T WANT BUSES OVERPRICED AT $400K EACH BECAUSE THEY ARE HYBRIDS
and which BTW HAVE STUPID STEPS IN THE MIDDLE OF THEM. I WANT CHEAP
BUSES, AND NO WHEELCHAIRS ON THEM.
- I DON'T WANT ELEVATORS ON SUBWAY PLATOFRMS TO PISS IN
- I DON'T WANT TO TRACK BUSES BY TEXT MESSAGES!!
- I DON'T WANT THE GOD DAMN MTA BASTARDS who are destroying NYC!!!!
MEANWHILE, these shitheads can't make the trains that they haave WORK!!!
They have scheduled shutdowns this week for 'repairs and track work' on
the 1,2,4,5,a,b,d,e,f,l,m,m,n and r lines....EVERY LINE IN THE DAMN
SYSTEM INCLUDING THE SHUTTLES.
THe MTA MUST END!!!
Ruben
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