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With fare hike stopped, transit advocates in Manhattan call for restoration of 24-hour subway service

With fare hike stopped, transit advocates in Manhattan call for restoration of 24-hour subway service
AMNY
1/19/2021
Robert Pozarycki
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BY GABRIELE HOLTERMANN Now that the MTA has put its fare increase plans on ice for the time-being, transit advocates are calling for the restoration of 24-hour subway service, and a statewide tax increase to generate funding for the cash-strapped transit system. At a Tuesday rally outside the MTA s Financial District headquarters, members of the Riders Alliance pushed for these changes and others to help the city recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, and encourage greater ridership. Stephanie Burgos-Veras of Riders Alliance felt it was important to keep the pressure on the MTA and Governor Cuomo. We are extremely happy that they are listening to us and understand that this is not the time to raise the fares. But we also understand that they are postponing; they are not canceling, Burgos-Ve ....

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The MTA's Fare Hike Has Been Postponed, But The Fight Over Revenue Is Just Starting – Streetsblog New York City

There’s gonna be a showdown.
Even after the MTA delayed a planned 4-percent fare hike that the board was set to vote on this week, progressive activists are vowing to keep up the fight to find alternate sources of revenue for the state’s mass transit system and head off a potential vote on the fare hike later this year.
“We want to make clear that postponing a fare hike is not canceling a fare hike,” said Riders Alliance Organizing Manager Stephanie Burgos-Veras at a rally in front of MTA headquarters on Tuesday morning. “In two to three months, people’s financial situations will not magically get better. People are facing food insecurity, housing insecurity, they have seen their families pass away and have had to take on the costs of having to bury loved ones because of a scary and deadly virus.” ....

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