Subway Pickpocket by Owen Smith
From Gene Russianoff of the Straphangers Campaign
Today, Governor Eliot Spitzer said "we will do everything possible to avoid a [transit] rate hike ...We will increase state investment in transportation - both capital and operating sides of the budget - because that is the only way to maintain our transportation..." The governor was responding to a question about the likelihood of a fare hike by year's end.
The Straphangers Campaign agrees with Governor Spitzer.
That fare hike, to be voted on this summer, could go into effect in September this year. Another is scheduled for 2009.
-- Chuck Bennett
