{"id":157766,"date":"2021-01-19T05:20:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mta-delays-board-vote-on-two-year-subway-fare-hikes\/"},"modified":"2021-01-19T05:20:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-19T02:20:57","slug":"mta-delays-board-vote-on-two-year-subway-fare-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mta-delays-board-vote-on-two-year-subway-fare-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"#MTA delays board vote on two-year subway fare hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#MTA delays board vote on two-year subway fare hikes<\/strong>”
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The cash-strapp<\/a>ed MTA is putting the brakes on controversial plans to raise transit fares, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

Agency board members had been scheduled to vote Thursday on fare and toll increases in line with the agency\u2019s policy since 2009 to enact increases every two years.<\/p>\n

Instead, proposed fare hikes of as much as four percent will be tabled for the time-being, according to a source familiar with the agency\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n

Officials are still moving forward with plans to increase bridge and tunnel tolls, the source said. Those toll hikes were scheduled for a vote in February, with implementation set for sometime in the spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs part of our biennial review of fare and toll policy, the MTA conducted the unprecedented level of outreach this year required, holding eight public hearings and receiving 2,100 public comments,\u201d MTA Chairman Pat Foye said in a statement. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we heard at these hearings was that people are suffering and cannot shoulder even a modest fare increase right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Transit leaders made a splash in November when they included the elimination of unlimited 7-day and 30-day passes among their biannual fare hike proposals. <\/p>\n

Board members at the time strongly opposed the plan, with some arguing the MTA should actually be\u00a0lowering<\/em>\u00a0fares to encourage ridership,\u00a0which has cratered\u00a0during the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

Riders Alliance spokesman Danny Pearlstein said a fare increase in the current moment would have hurt New Yorkers still riding, who he said are overwhelmingly working class.<\/p>\n

The perennially-broke MTA is slated to receive billions of dollars from the federal government to shore off its pandemic losses.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow is not the time for a fare hike that would have hurt working New Yorkers in the middle of a pandemic,\u201d Pearlstein said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe MTA\u2019s gotten several billion dollars of federal aid. It needs several billion more. A fare hike that brings in a few million is small potatoes. These biannual fare hikes no longer make any sense.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#MTA delays board vote on two-year subway fare hikes” The cash-strapped MTA is putting the brakes on controversial plans to raise transit fares, The Post has learned. Agency board members had been scheduled to vote Thursday on fare and toll increases in line with the agency\u2019s policy since 2009 to enact increases every two years….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/01\/subway-turnstile-2.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[89901,82412,71452,82413,7646],"class_list":["post-157766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-1-18-21","tag-fare-hikes","tag-mta","tag-subway-fare","tag-transit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}