MTA blames fare evasion as operating budget heads toward deficit

N.J. Burkett has the details on the MTA meeting to discuss its operating budget amid the pause in congestion pricing in NYC.


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[Zero_ss]

Until they accept a public audit so we can see where all the money has gone for years nothong else matters. They claimed to not have enough money even before 2020

[danteB]

Wait so you’re saying buses aren’t free? Literally anyone I’ve seen use the bus just walk on.

[all]

At parson jamaica 80% go in free in the bus

[douglasennis]

I watch overpaid $75K and up booth workers sitting on there asses while people jump turnstyles and going through emergency EXITS!!! GET RID OF THESE WORTHLESS EMPLOYEES!! They're rude and lazy while the collect way more money than they're worth. Get rid of the booths and make them guard the entrances!!!

[YankeesStadium]

The mta always blames other people they should fix their problems themselves. They get enough money. This is unbelievable. they mismanaged a lot of their funds. They need new management. That’s what they need.

[stelity]

BS...a lot of people haven't been paying for the bus and boarding through the back for over 8 years. They don't even have to walk through the back. They just walk through the front.

[markpranck]

In Brooklyn bus Q35 on flatbush brooklyn to Rockaway, no one paid fares. Why that allow?

[redsuxhr]

Hahahaha 40% of bus riders don't pay??? Hahahahha more like 80%

[eddiee]

Before congestión pricing was even thought about they always cried budget disasters.

[BetterTextLex]

So the MTA suddenly discovered a huge hole in its operating budget and the only way to fill it is with the congestion tax. But what about the capital improvements we heard so much about? Oh, now we need to pay a new tax or fee or toll for those improvements? New Yorkers have been falling for the same scam about the MTA replacing signals and upgrading switches for decades 😆

[Baheieujlsksnen]

Just catch every single deliquents who don't pay and board!!!! I'm from other country living in the States and was shocked to see those bad guys. Such a thing? Never have seen anyone doing so.

[lukelou]

It’s simple. Less trains and less buses. Make delays long. And close the back of the bus. Only come in through the front. And put a turn style on the bus’s as well. Only removable by driver for dis able people. Trains should be delayed more. No one pays, less service. In fact. The mta should go on strike. Until the city of ny starts paying up.

[jakirmalik]

Mta full of shit..They got alot of money..They looking for any excuse to get congestion fare rolling..They get enough fucken grants

[MZUNUSUAL]

It’s even worse on the buses you would see 12 people walk through the door and out of the 12 one would pay it’s crazy sometimes I get mad and say to myself why am I going every month to buy monthly pass.
I don’t know maybe they need to have one or two MTA police with guns on each bus and making sure everybody comes on they pay.

[dragonli]

If city enforce fare evasion won’t have this kind of problem but no consequence for fare evasion of course nobody more people not going to pay 😆

[glamslamcam]

It’s disgusting watching people commit crimes of not paying day in & day out & it’s frustrating seeing the MTA complain but they won’t do anything to stop it. It’s also frustrating that the NYPD & the DA’s around the city won’t do anything to stop this either. It’s lose lose and I’m waiting on the MTA to cut service one day cause it’s coming because of all of this fare beating. It’s coming one day.

[kentmusgrove]

Politicians blame everyone but themselves. And voter vote for the politicians responsible. It's a never-ending circle of incompetence.

[exautical]

If the MTA gets audited there will be a fatass superseding indictment of MTA employees/officials, city workers, and politicians

[marcelinorodriguez]

Mta is alway crying they have no money but they alway have millions for raises

[Unitybrown]

When Giuliani and Bloomberg were Mayor, if you jumped a fare gate, a door in the station would open and you would get arrested.