{"id":1586,"date":"2006-09-21T09:51:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/now_that_was_easy.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T17:44:15","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T22:44:15","slug":"no_it_really_wa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/no_it_really_wa.html","title":{"rendered":"Now That Was Easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it really wasn&#8217;t worth noting because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/hike_is_dead__in_its_tracks_regionalnews_jeremy_olshan_______transit_reporter.htm\">apparently it was never going to happen in the first place<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow pulled the emergency brake yesterday on proposals to raise bus and subway fares and cut back on service next year.<\/p>\n<p>Predicting deficits upward of $1 billion starting in 2008, the agency said in July that a 5 percent fare hike would likely have to kick in next September, along with reductions in the number of subway trains and buses that run during midday, nights and weekends.<\/p>\n<p>But yesterday, amid complaints from transit advocates and union leaders, Kalikow switched tracks.<\/p>\n<p>Noting that ridership had soared to levels not seen in decades, he said straphangers deserved a little slack &#8212; and there will be no fare hikes or service cuts through 2007.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The announcement infuriated some transit officials, who contend the proposed cuts were included in the preliminary budget over their objections &#8212; and now Kalikow is making himself out to be the hero, sources said.<\/p>\n<p>Though MTA sources say the cuts never really had a chance of remaining in the final November budget, transit advocates fumed that the agency would even think of hurting riders to save $20 million annually &#8212; a measly sum compared to the agency&#8217;s $10 billion budget.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this the kind of win-win-win scenario that allows everybody to grandstand:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Balking at the proposed cuts, which could also cost hundreds of transit jobs, Transport Workers Union boss Roger Toussaint said the MTA should &#8220;cut suits instead of service.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that looming deficit? Take it out of LIRR&#8217;s budget!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it really wasn&#8217;t worth noting because apparently it was never going to happen in the first place: MTA Chairman Peter Kalikow pulled the emergency brake yesterday on proposals to raise bus and subway fares and cut back on service next year. Predicting deficits upward of $1 billion starting in 2008, the agency said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,51,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here","category-grandstanding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586","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=1586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}