Does anybody here know the STAGGERING AMOUNT they take in?!?!
It is NOT fare beating and the PALTRY one million a week it is costing them.
It’s HORRIBLE service and conditions and people taking other means of transportation that’s killing them.
That and bloated unions and boondoggles of every size, shape and color.
YES, fare beaters should be arrested.
No, the million dollars a week is certainly not the reason they’re raising the fare.
And YES, I miss the Rudy days and always will.
I’m curious - how much does MTA take in from fares?
My only experience with a large public transport system like this is CTA, on occasion, in Chicago. It actually seems tolerable.
Their own budget document says the fare revenue is $6.3 BILLION.
So talking about $52 million as a main focus of their budgetary crisis is absurd.
Yes, fare thieves should be combatted and arrested just on principal, to uphold the law and also to prevent that problem from getting worse.
But as you say, losing $1 million per week is NOT what is screwing up the MTA.
http://web.mta.info/mta/budget/pdf/MTA-2018-AdoptedBudgetFebruaryFinancialPlan_2018-21.pdf