MTA, reaming passengers for 27 million dollars

In New York just about everyone takes public transport. The Mayor Mike Bloomberg who is worth billions of dollars (those dollars were acquired by Bloomberg financial, innovator of real time streaming of stock market data) rides the 4,5,6.

I love it when working class people win.

In LA this is not the case. The people who mainly support the system of public transportation are in the throes of working classdom.

“I’m not working class. I live in a loft, I take public transport for fun,” my experience is the only experience Sam.

Yeah….

While there are a few people (those few are mainly on the rails not the busses) who aren’t of the poor or working classes taking public transport, the busses, which carries the most people take the working class and the poor to and from work and school.

• Approximately 275,000 people take the rails on the weekdays.
• Approximately 1,227,000 people take the bus on the weekdays.

Which line would you view as more valuable? Which line would you spend the most money on? If you’re the MTA, you would spend more money on the 275,000 people.

Yet the over 1 million of working class people who tend to ride the busses (because the trains don’t go to working class neighborhood, unless they are getting ready to rape them) are the people that the MTA goes out of it’s way to ream for cash.

Not working things out with the LADOT.
Cutting night discount fares.
Cutting peak hour discounts.
Raising the fees on day passes.
Eliminating the bi-weekly passes.

Squeezing the little bit of cash out of the people who have no cash.

Spending vast amounts of their money on the lines, which carry only 22% of their passengers.

When the economy goes to hell and the first person from Sci-Arc taking the Gold Line gets shot, do you know what’s going to happen to the MTA rail experiment? It will fail and trust me with the economy going to hell in a hand basket it’s only a matter of time before the wrong person gets caught in the crossfire. A wrong person being a white person with parents of note, whose in school and not in the porn industry (because we all know if you’re doing porn, then you had it coming,) preferably a girl of one of the more popular and "normal" Judeo-Christian faiths. Not Mormonism, because that’s kind of weird.

So in this money crunching time when people are living in tents ala Grapes of Wrath why is the MTA still providing tow service to motor vehicles. Free tow service. Free tow service at a cost of 27 million dollars annually.

The MTA spends 27 million dollars annually on a service that helps bus riders how?

The MTA has a fleet of 152 trucks to help 300,000 people (and we know this is an inflated bullshit number, but lets pretend the MTA is honest…) which is pretty much nothing, but they do this service for free, which seems like a BIG freakin waste considering the MTA is hurting so much for cash.

The MTA cares so much about the 5.5 million dollars that they lose on fare evasion, but they spend 27 million dollars annually to tow two cars.

The MTA cares so much about 5.5 million dollars that they lose on fare evasion and they are going to spend 30 million dollars to install gates at a cost of 1.1 million dollars annually to maintain and will increase MTA’s revenue by 6.6 million dollars.

That seems like bad business in my opinion, but working at the MTA isn't working, it’s welfare for the rich and incompetent.

Get a real job you welfare frauds. The good bus riders are sick of paying for you and your babies!!!!

So is your baby Tutor Saliba, going to be build those gates or are you going to make us support one of your out of state kids from a prior daddy?

by Browne

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All of the facts and figures for the MTA were compiled from the MTA website.