{"id":4025,"date":"2008-11-25T10:50:48","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2008-11-25T10:50:48","modified_gmt":"2008-11-25T15:50:48","slug":"bold_cost-cutting_measures_continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/bold_cost-cutting_measures_continue.html","title":{"rendered":"Bold Cost-Cutting Measures Continue!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As in bold, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/11\/when_lobbying_for_more_money_in_tight_financial_times.html\">public relations-scamming<\/a> cost-cutting measures amounting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/11252008\/news\/regionalnews\/mta_toll_jam_is_looming_140670.htm\">precisely 0.52 percent of a $1.3 billion deficit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The MTA&#8217;s doomsday budget may take a huge toll not only on drivers&#8217; wallets but also on their time. <\/p>\n<p>The agency is weighing a plan to close some cash lanes at the nine bridges and tunnels it operates. <\/p>\n<p>And as if that won&#8217;t create enough congestion, it may also begin stopping drivers without enough money on their E-ZPasses instead of letting them through and billing them later &#8211; saving $3.4 million in mailings. <\/p>\n<p>The possible changes are part of the agency&#8217;s plan to close a $1.3 billion budget gap unless city and state lawmakers step in with a crucial bailout package. <\/p>\n<p>MTA officials expect to save $3.4 million by closing cash booths at times when fewer cars use the crossings. Still, it would likely slow traffic to a crawl as cars pile up behind the remaining tollbooths.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As in bold, public relations-scamming cost-cutting measures amounting to precisely 0.52 percent of a $1.3 billion deficit: The MTA&#8217;s doomsday budget may take a huge toll not only on drivers&#8217; wallets but also on their time. The agency is weighing a plan to close some cash lanes at the nine bridges and tunnels it operates. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,63,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-follow_the_money","category-grandstanding","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025","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=4025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4026,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4025\/revisions\/4026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}