{"id":138014,"date":"2020-12-20T23:10:11","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/commuters-protest-mta-fare-hike-outside-gov-cuomos-office\/"},"modified":"2020-12-20T23:10:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T20:10:11","slug":"commuters-protest-mta-fare-hike-outside-gov-cuomos-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/commuters-protest-mta-fare-hike-outside-gov-cuomos-office\/","title":{"rendered":"#Commuters protest MTA fare hike outside Gov. Cuomo’s office"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Commuters protest MTA fare hike outside Gov. Cuomo’s office<\/strong>”
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Disgruntled straphangers rallied outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo\u2019s Midtown office Sunday to protest proposed MTA fare and toll hikes.<\/p>\n

In addition to increasing subway fare prices, the transit agency is considering raising the price of a new single-use MetroCard, getting rid of unlimited subway passes and revoking the Staten Island resident discount on the Verrazzano-Narrows\u00a0Bridge.<\/p>\n

The agency is also considering <\/a>slashing subway service and eliminating about 9,400 jobs as it faces a severe budget shortfall and plummeting ridership amid the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Riders and advocates say the increases would basically amount to a tax on essential workers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last nine months have ripped open the deep inequities in our society and exposed what we have known for too long. We exploit the working class to get ahead,\u201d said Betsy Plum, executive director of the Rider\u2019s Alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cHiking fares with all of these offices closed, with ridership low and with subways shut down overnight is unfairly asking essential workers and low income New Yorkers to pay more for less. We cannot use the subway and bus fare as a regressive backdoor tax to fund the state government,\u201d Plum said.<\/p>\n

Twenty-nine-year old Pedro Valdez said it would be \u201cdevastating\u201d for his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, I want to tell Gov. Andrew Cuomo this is the worst possible time to raise transit fares\u2026 If there will be a higher fare rate starting in March, it will take a devastating toll on my family\u2019s immedia<\/a>te monthly expenses, especially since there will be a possibility of no unlimited MetroCards, which saves us a lot of money,\u201d the Bedford Stuyvesant resident and Rider\u2019s Alliance member said.<\/p>\n

Since 2009, it\u2019s been the MTA\u2019s policy to enact fare increases every two years.<\/p>\n

Fare and toll hikes would go into effect in March if app<\/a>roved by the MTA board early next year. The protest came on the eve of the final public hearing into the move.<\/p>\n

The MTA could avoid the worst of its cuts next year if Congress includes $4.5 billion of relief to the transit agency as it negotiates a long awaited stimulus bill. However, even if Washington approves a bailout, the cash-strapped agency would still be grappling with an $8 billion shortfall.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a hole in the pocket. De Blasio, Cuomo and all the representatives are supposed to do something about it,\u201d said Ariela De Dios, 30, of Richmond Hill, a member of New York Communities for Change.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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