Can NYC still afford a 24-hour subway system?
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority board is expected to approve the agency’s 2010 budget Wednesday, which cuts several subway lines, dozens of bus routes and reduces the number of trains and buses late at night and on weekends. Future budget cuts seem inevitable, given the state of the economy.
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The MTA has a bloated payroll. Both political appointee employment agency and union payroll. Why do MTA employee not contribute to their health insiurance and retirment at the same rates private employees do?
Yes, the MTA certainly can afford it. Get rid of some of the higher up lying bastards and they’ll have all the money they need.
If you want to see what economic damage looks like, just try stopping the subways at night. Everything from night life, to custodial maintenance, to traders dealing with European markets, to students traveling in from outer boroughs. Think crowding of rush hour is bad now? Add those off-peak riders to it and see what happens. No way, Jose.
On one hand, they can not afford it because they don’t take in enough tax revenue.
On the other hand, they can not afford not to keep the subways running 24 hours.
Stop trying to get public services for free, raise taxes and stop running deficits.
CUT THE UNION PAYROLL!!! These clowns are overpaid and overbenefitted!
I would hate to see it happen to the City that never Sleeps. But, as businesses curtail their hours,it is conceiveable train schedules @ nite could be altered.
it was my thought just now too!
I wonder where they dream these questions from.
I wonder if they hired some of the flunkies from Acorn.
you talk just like an Obama man.
No wonder things are really twisted around in the city.
Twenty-four hour train service, or night buses, as in London, would both do well. Before cutting service, however, the first matter of business is to charge fees on the East River bridges and the Staten Island ferry.
So many New Yorkers’ work day is at night. How are they to get to work?