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Posted by AEM-7AC #901 on Wed Mar 14 10:45:49 2012, in response to Re: The MTA's Misplaced Priorities, posted by BrooklynBus on Wed Mar 14 10:28:13 2012. And isn't it considerate of you to believe that people on assistance don't deserve public transit.I guess one hasn't noticed my posting history where I've implicitly argued that the high wages and benefits of transit workers is what makes it difficult to extend transit services to more marginal areas or allow for increased railway services. As I've noted before, transit isn't exactly some magical free service that costs nothing to run, and if we're going to run more transit, either we're going to have to increase the subsidy to transit and/or reduce some of the operating costs of said transit, and in most cases, said operating costs are mostly from paying the salary and benefit costs of the the employees. The question one should ask is even if transit workers are hard-working, should their benefits come at the cost of service to the poorer citizens. |
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