Making Every Dollar Count

[ARomeDTBF]

Keep up the great work Jay Walder!

[bflatism]

yea? Less expensive ways huh?  Yea, slicing a few bus routes DOES NOT solve anything!

[althea1959]

Tell us another lie, Walder. You should be ashamed of yourself. In 1983, you did not contribute JACK to that agency. It was the b, s and t's of the ordinary workers. You were raised in that dump called Rockaway, where you were taught to hate working men and women.

[TheEdumacator]

That "discount is a false one. you have payed it forward. The now have money in the bank making (interest) money on the float. In todays daily news riders lose 52 million dollars a year on this float by not even using the odd amounts. Some discount. If you think its not by design then I have a bridge in Brooklyn I'm looking to sell.

[DrSurprise]

thumbs down for Jay Walder! he helped made good ideas for the London Underground a succesful system but isn't doing anything for the MTA! how is service cuts and fare hikes a good idea? even though some lines did deserve to be cut because other routes co-routed one route. lol at 0:12 ! my guess is they did that because the bus was crowded and there were buses breaking down that would never show up. as for ticketing drivers parking in bus lanes, fine them as well!

[TheEdumacator]

This guy is an idiot. He is running the system into the ground. he keeps talking about improvements but is cutting service at every turn. How is that improvement? Less employees, less service but Oh Yeah build more stations that we can cut service to. What a forked tongue.

[herenthere]

@TheEdumacator Well it's not his fault that the MTA is hemorrhaging money...how about blaming the City and State for cutting funding over the years, or the TWU, which is getting 11% raises for the next 3 years...

[TheEdumacator]

@herenthere You are misinformed. The city and state doesn't owe the MTA anything. This was an agreement between them a long time ago. The MTA is not like the police, teachers, fire dept etc. They don't have to take taxes. They can just charge what they should have been charging all along. The real travesty is that people that have cars have to pay tax money to a system they don't use. In England the train is $8.00 in NY you can go from one borough to the next for $2.25 and that's expensive?????

[herenthere]

@TheEdumacator "The real travesty is that people that have cars have to pay tax money to a system they don't use."

> Really? Let's look at it this way: driving a car creates a negative externality - if everyone drove instead of taking transit, then you would have congestion so bad, you would need bridges stretching along the entire East River to compensate for all the subway riders that would be displaced. Funding transit through drivers, such as w/ congestion pricing, actually helps everyone.

[TheEdumacator]

@herenthere You are starting a different argument. An environmental one. You ever leave NY. Everyone drives. I stand by my statement. If you don't take the train or bus you shouldn't have to pay for it. get your arguments straight.

[herenthere]

@TheEdumacator Right, everyone driving outside of NYC creates what: exurbias, people waking up before dawn to drive 2 hours to work, health problems due to increased reliance on cars, oh yeah it's great. My argument was not purely an environmental one - it was if the MTA shut down, people would either: a) not go to work or b) walk/drive to work - forget about going to work then, you wouldn't even make it past the East River.

[TheEdumacator]

@herenthere Who said anything about the MTA shutting down? Quote it anywhere in my posts. I never said public transportation is a bad thing. My complaint is that the MTA is getting money from both ends , the taxpayer AND the rider. The Mayor and Governer agrees apparently because they are giving waaaaaay less tax money to them. Even when times were good did the MTA ever go down NO. They bullshit you into thinking your are getting a deal by paying in advance so you get a "discount".

[thf415]

if there is one smart move Gov. Patterson has made it was appointing this guy.

[TheEdumacator]

@thf415 Gov. Patterson wouldn't know a  "smart move' if it kicked him in the nuts.

[herenthere]

thumbs up for Jay Walder!

[TheEdumacator]

@herenthere I have a different finger up.