Re:How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
by bravura on Friday September 05, 2014 @03:14PM
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They have a history of not making enough money
Except, you know, when they discovered that they had an extra $1.9B dollars (surprise!)
http://jalopnik.com/nycs-mta-finds-unexpected-1-9-billion-st...
This has happened in the past too, where they magically discovered a surplus. I'd have to dig for the reference.
They are terrible at bookkeeping is one reason New Yorkers hate the MTA.
Re:How Memorizing “$19.05” Can Help You Outsmart the MTA
by JackFr on Friday September 05, 2014 @12:11PM
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As a New Yorker and a long-time subway rider, I get in a rage because I perceive the MTA to be mismanaged. Though performance of the system improved noticeably in the 90's and beyond the MTA keeps notoriously obscure books, and seem incapable of budgeting and planning. I understand that fares will go up for a number of reasons, but too often the MTA finds itself in the hole to a few hundred million bucks and cannot explain why.
They have a history of not making enough money, and everyone in NYC gets in a rage whenever the fare has to be hiked up. So if they're able to make some extra money off of tourists, for the benefit of all the regular New Yorkers, that's fine by me.