Comments on: Live from the MTA hearings

By: Frank Hertle

Frank Hertle — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:25:59 +0000

If the MTA is really serious about addressing its budgetary problems it should consider scrapping the 2nd Avenue Subway project rather than cutting established services and forcing children to spend more of their already hard-pressed parents’ money on Metro cards to get to school.

The 2nd Avenue Subway project is behind schedule and over budget already, is disrupting both businesses and traffic on the avenue, and is of questionable value to the city’s infrastructure. See the site http://www.plannyc.org/taxonomy/term/663 for more info and updates on this project, which I like to think of as the “subway to nowhere.”

By: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » Waiting for Senator Schumer

Wed, 28 Jan 2009 06:54:48 +0000

[...] tonight, Brooklyn takes center stage as the MTA brings its hearings circuit our way. Council members are urging vocal protests, but where’s our solution? Will Bill de [...]

By: JP

JP — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:05:30 +0000

The MTA has video of the hearing here. It has all the parts you missed. I hope you can continue to blog on these hearings as they happen in the next few weeks. I wonder who's (of the MTA board) going to show up at the Brooklyn and the Westchester hearings as they will happen on the same day.

By: daily / links for 2009-01-18

daily / links for 2009-01-18 — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 11:00:40 +0000

[...] Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » Live from the MTA hearings As the long break stretches on and on, a few members of the public have stopped by to note my blogging. Diane Aronson just stopped by to talk about how this public hearing should be “declared null and void.” She argues that since up until around 7:45, people were barred from entering and that until the break, the backroom had no speakers, this isn’t really a public hearing. “How can you have a public hearing if the public isn’t there?” she asked. More from her later. [...]

By: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » Requiem for a Z

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:43:35 +0000

[...] day after a very contentious public hearing, two borough presidents and leading members of the Straphangers Campaign gathered in Lower [...]

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 17:13:17 +0000

Transit workers ID cards are passes that swipe. After 25 years service and 55 years of age, I think the retirees get to keep one. Most of them die pretty soon though so its not such a burden.

By: Skip Skipson

Skip Skipson — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:09:25 +0000

Thank you for letting us know what went on at the meeting.

By: Second Ave. Sagas | A New York City Subway Blog » Blog Archive » » Waiting outside the MTA hearing

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 06:13:16 +0000

[...] 2nd Ave. Subway History « Live from the MTA hearings [...]

By: Benjamin Kabak

Benjamin Kabak — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:30:23 +0000

Not that I endorse Robin’s position, but she was mostly concerned with lifetime, post-retirement perks. Those Best Buy employee discounts are not supposed to carry over once an employees leaves or retires.

By: Grrrumpy Miner

Grrrumpy Miner — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 05:29:24 +0000

Ya know whats scary.Say Best Buy employees get 30% off of merchandise and pay $400 for a TV while the average customer pays $600 for the same TV.Why not yell thats unfair.Better yet say you work at Stop and Shop and get 50% off while the public pays full price.I don’t see people crying fowl (intended).We all need TVs for entertainment and food.Those my friends are called perks and benefits for their employees.So when you think of us,look at Best Buy and Stop and Shop and what THEIR employees get.Its all the same whether its private or public sector jobs.