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When Cuts Are Not Enough | DMI Blog
Saturday, April 17, 2010 17:00
John Petro When Cuts Are not Enough New York MTA chief Jay Walder penned an op-ed for the New York Post yesterday in which he details the cost-saving measures the agency has come up with to help close a $750 million budget gap. The gap is the result of cuts in state funding for mass [...]
Spare charities from the new MTA mobility tax
Saturday, April 10, 2010 3:30
Thursday, April 8th 2010, 4:00 AM If you run a New York nonprofit today as I do, you’re between a rock and a hard place. just when you exhale, having avoided layoffs in the worst economy in memory, your budget springs a new leak: an MTA payroll tax hike. Yes, the tax drafted last year [...]
MTA Hearing: Desperation In Paradise
Friday, April 9, 2010 4:30
Comment Subscribe Subscribe In what many see as a futile attempt to fight proposed service cuts and new rate hikes to public transportation, Bronxites turned up to give a “Bronx cheer,” to board members of the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYC MTA.) Only a few hundred Bronxites turned out for the only public [...]
On the Subway, V Is for Vanished – City Room Blog – NYTimes.com
Saturday, March 20, 2010 23:00
The V train, a weekday-only service that relieved crowding on the E and F lines and was one of the youngest trains in the new York City subway system, was sentenced to death on Friday. it was 8 years old and divided its time between Queens and Manhattan. Its demise was announced by the Metropolitan [...]
Fare-beaters cost NYC Transit a staggering $27 million in 2009, new research finds
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 22:00
BY Pete Donohue DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 4:00 AM Beating the fare-beaters What can be done to cut down on turnstyle-jumpers? For years, NYC Transit has wildly underestimated how often riders beat the fare, which cheats the cash-crunched agency out of millions of dollars, the Daily News has learned. Fare-beaters jump [...]
New York City Transit to Cut More Than 1000 Jobs
Sunday, March 14, 2010 23:00
Associated Press NEW YORK—New York’s cash-strapped transit agency plans to cut more than 1,000 jobs, including up to 500 station agents. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Jay Walder said the layoffs are painful but the MTA must live within its means. the MTA has about 70,000 workers. The MTA said in December it was facing a [...]
Why Is the M.T.A. Always in Trouble? – Room for Debate Blog …
Sunday, March 14, 2010 21:00
Updated, Dec. 17, 12:05 p.m. | Paul Larrousse of the National Transit Institute joins the discussion. He points out that the M.T.a. is hardly alone in its troubles: 90 percent of transit systems have raised fares and/or cut service in the past year. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which is struggling to fill a sudden budget [...]
MTA symbols: Intellectual Property or New York City's Public Domain?
Thursday, March 11, 2010 1:00
The new York Metro Transit Authority (MTA), facing a budget gap of $400 million,1 has begun to go after copyright and trademark infringers who use or display any of the MTA’s protected symbols.2 among these protected symbols are the train numbers and letters, maps of the NY subway system, photos of Grand Central Terminal and [...]
NYC transit agency to cut more than 1,000 jobs
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 6:00
NEW YORK (AP) — The chairman of new York’s cash-strapped transit agency announced plans Tuesday to cut more than 1,000 jobs from the agency’s 70,000-person payroll. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said in December it was facing a $383 million budget gap due largely to a cut in state aid and lower-than-expected revenues from a payroll [...]
