The MTA board couldn't manage a McDonald's franchise. They wasted billions in unnecessary "capital improvements" and then cry to Albany for more money? Fuck the MTA.
The MTA came through on its grim promise to wallop riders with a crippling fare hike -- coupled with severe service cuts -- in a desperate bid to close its $1.2 billion budget gap without any help from Albany lawmakers.
The moves include a $103 monthly MetroCard -- a staggering $22 hike.
[...] The hikes were approved by a vote of 12-1, with Norman Seabrook the lone dissenter.
"Let's take the public off the hook," he said, adding that the board should let state lawmakers "do their job."
Without an Albany rescue, things will get worse, the agency warned.
Just minutes after their vote, MTA officials said they could return next month to demand even higher fares from straphangers in 2010 unless state lawmakers pass a true plan.
The current hikes will go into effect on May 31 and inflate the cost of a single ride from $2 to $2.50.
Penny-pinching straphangers will dish out $6 more for a 7-day unlimited MetroCard, an extra $12 for a 14-day pass, and $1.50 more each way on MTA-run crossings like the Brooklyn-Battery and Queens-Midtown tunnels and the Triborough Bridge.
Also green-lighted were crippling service cuts that will eliminate the W and Z subway lines and at least 23 bus routes.
The doomsday measures will also cost 1,100 jobs.
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jeez.
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