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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign No Education without Transportation! Join our Facebook group for regular updates about what you can do to save NYC's student MetroCards. Then invite your friends! Can we reach 10,000 members by the New Year?

Save NYC Student MetroCards!
Fight the Cuts to Student MetroCards! Last May, riders beat back a "doomsday" package of MTA transit service cuts. Shockingly, these cuts are back and include a new horrendous proposal - the ending ...
December 22, 2009 at 8:53am
Marc
Marc
According the this Courier-Life article http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2009/12/18/brooklyn_heights_courier/news/brooklyn_heights_courier_newsjspidct12182009.txt, the City and State used to pay 100% of the cost of student bus and subway passes. In 1995, there was an agreement among the State, the City, and the MTA to split the costs evenly, which... See More was $15 million each that year. The State now pays just $6 million. The MTA pays $31 million. The article does not say what the City kicks in. This kind of dumping of expenses on the MTA burdens every rider. The City and the State must pay the costs of pupil transportation, not the parents and not the rest of the MTA's riders.
December 22, 2009 at 2:47pm
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New York City Council - Tell the MTA to NOT Cut Our Services
council.nyc.gov
Tell the MTA to NOT Cut Our ServicesSpeaker Christine Quinn, Council Members andleading transportation advocates joined on the step of City Hall urging the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) to reject the irresponsible service cuts that were announced last week.
December 18, 2009 at 1:55pm
Josh
Josh
Better still would be to tell the state to make the MTA answer to the taxpayers.
December 18, 2009 at 2:33pm
Marc
Marc
The Legislature and the City Council need to have real and stable funding for public transportation. The real estate transfer tax has collapsed and should never have been the source of transit funds. The legislature plugged the gaps last year with gimmicks that did not produce enough revenue. NYC has one of the lowest transit subsidies in the US... See More while being the most transit-dependent city. It is a disgrace, and the MTA's financial crises will recur until the people tell their representatives to fund transit.
December 18, 2009 at 2:46pm
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign Mad as all hell about the service cuts? Want to do something about it? Sign up to volunteer with us.

Help improve NYC Transit
straphangers.org
We are currently facing a transit-funding crisis, the likes of which have not been seen in New York City for decades. In the weeks and month ahead, we will need your help to fight the fare increase and ...
December 18, 2009 at 11:27am
Joe Girandola
Joe Girandola
Something has to be done. They keep raising out fares and cutting service. I can't even find parking at the train stations. On Long Island they raise our property taxes and cut services
December 18, 2009 at 11:33am
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign The print version of this article in today's amNY has an awesome picture of our protest. Be sure to pick one up!

Many ideas to solve MTA budget gap, but reality is another thing
www.amny.com
Fed-up with the MTA and its “doomsday” cuts passed Wednesday, New York officials had their own suggestions — and some angry words — for the troubled agency and its $400 million budget gap.
December 17, 2009 at 7:52am
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign Hi Everyone, Listen to Gene talking about the service cuts on WNYC Radio.

WNYC - The Brian Lehrer Show: MTA Cuts (December 15, 2009)
www.wnyc.org
Gene Russianoff, staff attorney at NYPIRG Straphangers campaign, and Neysa Pranger, director of public affairs for the Regional Plan Association, review the drastic service cuts approved by the MTA's Finance Committee to close a budget gap.
December 15, 2009 at 12:51pm
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign Here is what Gene Russianoff, our Senior Staff Attorney, has to say about the proposed Cuts by the MTA.

Gene's Statement - Proposed Service Cuts 12/11/09 - Straphangers.Org Rider Diaries
www.straphangers.org
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December 11, 2009 at 10:06am
Joel Anabilah-Azumah
Joel Anabilah-Azumah
More needs to be cut...we need to actually get to $343M instead of balancing the budget through games.
December 11, 2009 at 12:40pm
Steve
Steve
It's true that the financial mess is not of the MTA's making... coming from the above statement..... how is this true.... with overpaying by union workers such as conductors who make way more than ny cops and teachers and hundreds of lawyers on call but having to contract out.... they have created their own cluster fuck and expect the public to ... See Morebail them out when no members of the mta work force is willing to take a single penny pay cut to save their jobs... please tell me how the mta has nothing to do with this mess....
December 11, 2009 at 2:32pm
Patricia
Patricia
union workers are getting 11% raises this year, at a time in which others (that is, those who still HAVE a job) are at best hoping for 1-2% increase. Heinous.
December 18, 2009 at 12:13pm
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign News reports this morning say the MTA is seriously considering reviving some $113 million in sweeping cuts to subway and bus service. This would be a disaster for subway and bus riders and for the MTA.

For subway and bus riders, these cuts would mean longer waits, more crowding and the death of three subway lines and ma...ny bus routes.

For the MTA, reviving these cuts would shred their credibility. The riding public was told last May that there would be no service cuts when the legislature bailed out the MTA. Riders held up their part of the bargain with a fare hike last June, yet now they are threatened with getting substantially less while paying more. Riders have every right to be mad as hell.

Among the cuts being seriously considered for revival are:

• partially or completely killing the M, W and Z lines;

• increasing waiting times and crowding at midday on a dozen subway lines;

• increasing night subway service from every 20 minutes to 30 minutes;

• shutting four subway stations in downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn late nights;

• eliminating overnight service on 25 bus routes;

• ending weekend service on 41 bus routes; and

• cutting all weekday service on 21 bus routes.


We have a chance to show the MTA that riders are mad as hell this Wednesday. We need to pack the MTA board room with riders to let them know how we feel.

MTA Board of Directors Meeting
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
8:30am
347 Madison Avenue, between E. 44th and E. 45th Streets

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MTA Board Meeting - MTA Proposed Service Cuts
Time:9:00AM Wednesday, December 16th
Location:347 Madison Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10017
December 11, 2009 at 9:15am
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December 8, 2009 at 10:47am
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Public Hearing on New York State Department of Transportation Five-Year Capital Plan - NYC | New Yor
www.nysenate.gov
Recognizing that the state's five-year capital program is essential to our state's economy and infrastructure, Senate Transportation Chair, Martin Malavé Dilan announced that the Senate will be holding ...
November 18, 2009 at 1:16pm
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Streetsblog New York City » World-Class Avenues for the East Side: What Great BRT Looks Like
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The biggest sustainable transportation story in New York right now is how DOT and the MTA plan to design Bus Rapid Transit corridors for the East Side of Manhattan. Will we get world-class avenues that ...
November 18, 2009 at 12:56pm
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign The MTA has also posted their Committee and Board meeting materials online as well.

MTA Newsroom
mta.info
Monday, November 16, 2009 -- Metro-North Railroad CommitteeMonday, November 16, 2009 -- Transit CommitteeMonday, November 16, 2009 -- Bus Company CommitteeMonday, November 16, 2009 -- MTA Finance CommitteeMonday, ...
November 16, 2009 at 10:15am
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign The MTA is now webcasting their board and committee meetings on the web.

MTA.info | Webcasts
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If you are having trouble viewing any of the video feeds, please check to make sure you have the latest version of your preferred media player.
November 16, 2009 at 10:07am
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Pokey, Schleppie, Trekkie News Conference 2009
November 6, 2009 at 9:55am
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Pokey, Schleppie, Trekkie News Conference 2009
November 5, 2009 at 10:08am
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NYPIRG Straphangers Campaign Check out the 2009 winners of the Pokey, Schleppie and Trekkie Awards!

NYPIRG Straphangers' Campaign Pokey, Schleppie and Trekkie Awards
www.straphangers.org
“Pokey” Award Goes to M42, City’s Slowest Bus Clocked at 3.7 MPH; A Five-Year-Old On a Motorized Tricycle Would Outpace the M42
November 5, 2009 at 9:45am