MTA Board Loses 6 Advocate Board Members
Stop & tell me where you have heard this one before, state politicians in Albany showcase their lack of regard and/or knowledge for the needs of the MTA & the riders it serves. Whether these actions are done purposely or not, the end result is the same. The ineptitude of our elected officials find a way to screw over the riders. The latest sign of this is when the State Legislature failed to renew the authorization of 6 non-voting posts on the MTA Board. These 6 posts belonged to rider & union advocates & included:
Pete Donohue of the New York Daily News has more in this brief report:
Straphangers and commuter train riders may have to scream a little louder to be heard as the MTA makes tough decisions about service cuts.
Rider and union advocates lost their combined six seats on the Metropolitan Transportation Authority board Friday when state legislation authorizing the nonvoting posts expired.
“This is a real shame,” said Andrew Albert, one of the affected board members. “I guess it just wasn’t on the radar.”
Click here for the complete report.
Actions such as this are why I & other transit advocates/bloggers have little to no faith in our elected officials doing what is right by the transit agency & its riders. The agency is arguably under the most pressure in its history to not only keep up the system, provide quality service to its ridership base, but find a way to stay financially afloat, & Albany lets this happen! Should we really be surprised that the positions lost are of those who benefit riders the most? I doubt that this is a coincidence.
We as riders need brand new leadership in Albany & need to vote out the status quo of ineptitude that at this pace will bankrupt the agency & screw us all in the process.
xoxo Transit Blogger
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These selfish inhumane people that run our! That is right our transit system need to be taken down. these people have the
quells, to stop giving our kids bus passes to go to school, while MTA supervisor are driving around in gas guzzling expensive suburban. I COULD NOT BELEVE MY EYS WHEN I SAW THIS MTA supervisor DRIVING A NEW suburban, WHILE I WALKING MY 10 YEAR OLD CHILD IN THE COLD TO SCHOOL, IF YOU TAKE JUST ONE OF THESE suburbans away from these no brain supervisor, for 1 year, YOU COULD probably PAY FOR 1 SCHOOL district IN SCHOOL PASSES!!!!!! I WONDER HOW MANY MORE OF THESE NO brain supervisors are out there driving these 10 MPG suburbans
P.S. I TRYED TO GOOGLE THE CARS THAT MTA USES, BUT HAD NO LUCK, TAKE THESE CARS AWAY, AND GIVE BACK THESE KIDS THE RIGHT TO LEARN. THERE WILL BE A MAJOR LOSS IN ADDENICE IN OUR SCHOOLS IF THESE PASSES ARE TAKEN AWAY, AND YOUTH CRIME WILL INCREASE.