{"id":1185,"date":"2006-06-19T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2006-06-19T08:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/06\/a_cautionary_tale.html"},"modified":"2006-06-19T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2006-06-19T08:06:25","slug":"a_cautionary_ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/06\/a_cautionary_ta.html","title":{"rendered":"A Cautionary Tale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing that just can&#8217;t happen when you self-righteously call for a study is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silive.com\/news\/advance\/index.ssf?\/base\/news\/115063688790060.xml&#038;coll=1\">it refutes everything you were trying to prove<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>For generations of Staten Islanders, it has been conventional wisdom that borough residents don&#8217;t get their fair share of public transit for all the money they pay in fares and tolls.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the city Independent Budget Office may have turned that assumption on its head, finding in a recent study that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority subsidizes Island commuters at a rate higher than passengers anywhere else in the city.<\/p>\n<p>Whether by local or express bus or by train, the analysis, requested by two local lawmakers, determined that when Islanders swipe their MetroCards, their fares cover a substantially smaller portion of the real cost of their rides.<\/p>\n<p>Transit observers played down the report and the borough&#8217;s $110 plus million annual subsidy, saying that the level of per-person subsidies belie a struggling transit system in need of even greater resources.<\/p>\n<p>Still, they acknowledge that the report did not turn up fresh evidence that more MTA funding is warranted here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t give us the ammunition we were seeking to make the case,&#8221; said Councilman James Oddo (R-Mid Island\/Brooklyn) who called for the study with Assemblyman Vincent Ignizio (R-South Shore).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one thing that just can&#8217;t happen when you self-righteously call for a study is that it refutes everything you were trying to prove: For generations of Staten Islanders, it has been conventional wisdom that borough residents don&#8217;t get their fair share of public transit for all the money they pay in fares and tolls. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here","category-staten_island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}