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MTA Board Approves Service Cuts

NEW YORK CITY-If implemented beginning next June, cuts will eliminate bus and subway lines and phase out discounted fares for students.

By Paul Bubny | Updated on December 16, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s board voted unanimously Wednesday morning to close a $383-million budget gap with service cuts. If implemented beginning next June, the cuts would include reducing or eliminating subway and bus lines, as well as phasing out discounted fares for students in 2010 and 2011. The MTA will hold public hearings before implementing the cuts.

When the proposed budget was presented at a Monday meeting of MTA’s finance committee, Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer called it “inexcusable” that the agency was planning to eliminate the fare discount for students. The New York Times quoted Andrew Albert, chair of the New York Transit Riders Council, as saying it was “a complete failure of government” that the MTA–and riders–should face this predicament.

Along with wiping two subway lines and several bus lines off the transit map, the MTA will reduce late-night and weekend service and reduce payroll expenses by 10%. The MTA blames several factors including a $143-million shortfall in tax revenues from the state and a state Supreme Court judge’s decision that the agency must honor $91 million worth of raises for unionized employees.

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