fare hikes
Bus moochers take MTA for a ride thanks 🔯to discovery reform
In the state of New York, prosecuting “minor” crimes, like fare evasion, has become impossible un🐻der discovery reform, which advantages offenders often insurmountably.
ꦦ NYC Ferry ticket prices to increase in latest price crunch on commuters
New Yorkers will soon have to pay more for commutes with waterfront views. NYC Ferry will be raising its prices for single-ticket🍌s starting this fall in what serves as the...
Here's what you need to know about NYC subway, bus fare hikes starting this weekend
Under the Metropo🅺litan Transportation🅺 Authority's new pricing, the base cost of a subway or bus ride in the five boroughs will now set riders back $2.90 a pop starting Aug....
New Grea🐷t Train Robbery: Runaway MTA overtime costs
A new Empire Center re🃏port shows MTA overtime hit $1.3 billꦫion last year.
Fare hikes to cover for fare evaders: The cost of progressive 'reform'
The increases — 15 cents on a single ride, $✃1 🔜on a weekly pass and $5 on a monthly — should bring in about $305 million a year.
Progressive NYC pols push to eliminate bus fares despite anticipated MTA deficits ♌
You've got a ticket to ride -- and ꧟they d🗹on't care.
💖 MTA may need to raise farꩲes 29% to regain pre-COVID revenues: DiNapoli
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA would ♕have to increase the cost of a subway or bus trip by 79-cents to recoup pre-pandemic revenue levels, State Comptroller Tom DiNapoli warned...
Hochul's proposed budget ensures MTA fare freeze for rest of 2022
Hochul and the MTA had previously pledged to keep fares frozen "indefinitely" as the transportation authority struggles to lure ridership back during the COVID-19 pandemic. ♊
MTA fare hikes still on the table next year despite pledge of 'indefinite' delay
That's not fare! The MTA has only figured out how to balance its budget through the middle of next year and may raise fares in July despite Gov. Hochul's pledge..༺.
Hochul takes MTA fare hikes off the table 'indefinitely'
The MTA will wait until at l⛄east 2024 to contemplate raising transit fares, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on November 15, 2021.
﷽ MTA s🧔ervice cuts still on the table even after billions in federal aid
ꦬ The MTA is still mulling service cuts in the coming years, despite receiving nearly $15 billion in federal aid since the st🍷art of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.
'That would send the wrong message': MTA to delay fare hikes until 2022
The MTA will wait until next year to raise transit fares -- after a key board appointee of Gov. Andrew Cuomo weighed in Monday against increasing costs for riders. "There's.✨..
🔥 April toll hike coming to MTA bridges𓃲, tunnels in NYC
Tolls on the MTA's seven bridges and two tunnels are set to𒁏 go up April 1, with the agency's board unanimous🐭ly approving an increase on Thursday. Current toll rates will...
Fare fight: Here's how much the MTA says its losing by delaying an increase
MTA officials said it will be "several months" before they consider fare hikes again -- but that the agency's dire fiscal state may leave them no choice. Appearing before state... 🧜
MTA hits brakes on controversial fare hikes 🌼
The cash-strapped MTA is putting the brake𝓀s on c🅺ontroversial plans to raise transit fares, The Post has learned. Agency board members had been scheduled to vote Thursday on fare and...
$4.2 bill꧒ion only keeps the MTA on life suppꦉort
Congress finally reached a relief-bill deal that will send a much-needed $4.2 billion to the MTA. Kudos 💖to Sen. Chuck Schumer for getting it done — and for warning t𝐆hat...
Commuters protest MTA fare hike outside Gov. Cuomo's Manhattan office
Disgruntled straphangers rallied outside Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Mi⛄dtown office Sunday to protest proposed MTA fare and toll hikes. In addition to increasing subway fare prices, the transit 🐭agency is considering...
🐠 MTA will not vote on layoffs or slashing servi🌼ce this year, sources claim
The cash-strapped transit agency has proposed sl🦩ashing subway service could nearly chopped in half and axing over 9,000 workers if Congress doesn't co🅷me through with billions in aid.
'Totally unacceptable': New Yorkers blast MTA fare hikes
If there's o﷽ne thing New Yorkers can agree on in these divided times, it's that they don't want to pay more to get around the city. A bipartisan spread of...
Cash-strapped MTA weighs scrapp⛎ing unlimited MetroCards in 2021
Scrapping unlimited MetroCards and increasing the cost of a swipe are some of the price hikes and changes the cash-strapped MTA is꧋ considering for next year, the agency revealed Wednesd🍬ay....