Email from a voter: “Not much info. on how you would pay for transit”
Thanks Steve from Forest Hills for his email. Do ask away.
MTA
No public seating at Moynihan Train Hall (Station)?
The Moynihan Train Hall (was Station) opened January 1, 2021. It took nearly two years to acknowledge complaints about no public seating?! The MTA is governed by a 21-member Board. All the members are nominated by the Governor!
Redesign of the bus lines in Queens not to be finalized until 2023.
Started in 2019, in MTA’s September 2022 report, new lines will not be finalized until next year.
LIRR Jamaica Yard bridge over 89 Ave and 123 St is a dump site and poorly lighted.
Residents are afraid walking underneath the bridge at night. It is poorly lighted, a regular dump ground, pigeons roost here… MTA could install a camera, and live stream the feed. Public could access it and its recording.
$500 million 2020, 2022, 2024. Does MTA even care about you and your money???
When the COVID pandemic hit. When you saw nightly subway cleaning. When it announced cost of fare evasion… Solutions? Build taller turnstiles. $ Hike fares in March 2023. $$ Congestion pricing in 2024. $$$ ENOUGH!
MTA got $15 billion of federal COVID aid. Where did it go?
Instead of restructuring the MTA for a post-COVID reality, it kept the same pre-COVID business model. Governor Kathy Hochul said no MTA fare hike until 2025 back in November 2021. MTA is already planning one right after the elections for March 2023. Left out of the report is Congestion Pricing.
MTA Customer Service is getting more inconvenient, worse in waiting and less friendly.
Before COVID, token booth clerks could take cash purchases, transfer card values, and be of service helping straphangers. My mother got a new MTA Reduced-Fare MetroCard. The expiring one has money in it, so I asked my token booth clerk to help. No luck. I could mail it in for a refund or visit a … Read more
MTA hiring hundreds to clean cars. Why not just open the restrooms at 76 stations?
Subway restrooms have shuttered since mid 2020. Where do people go if they have to go? What is MTA’s solution? Hire more cleaners.
Republicans are to stop and kill congestion pricing!
Passed April 1, 2019 in Albany’s budget bill (same bill as Bail Reform), drivers are expected to pay an additional toll between $9 and $23 below 60th Street or $14 to $35 by mail starting 2021. Thanks to COVID, implementation has been delayed. Update: July 1, 2022. MTA announced it was ready to implement the … Read more
A Train trussel at Ruby Avenue before the 80 Street Station needs lighting
It is dark and dangerous at night.