Restore Student MetroCards
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Jay Walder
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Walder:
Hard working parents and students should not be punished for the MTAs poor planning and mismanagement of its budget. The proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program as a means of balancing the MTA budget is unacceptable and should be taken off the table immediately.
The free-fare student program accounts for less than 2\% of the total MTA budget, and the State has not pulled its weight to fund this program as promised. However, eliminating such an important program to close a relatively small gap would be extremely shortsighted and detrimental to New York Citys future. While other jurisdictions rely on a yellow school bus to get their children to school, in New York City the yellow MetroCard is our school bus, which 400,000 students rely on every day to travel to school and participate in after-school activities. Cutting the Student MetroCard program is not the answer to the MTAs budget shortfall, and we will not stand for its proposed elimination.
The MTA must act responsibly and consider a wide range of budget solutions before placing this financial burden on parents and students. We urge you to withdraw the MTA proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program.
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
Metropolitan Transportation Authority
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017
Dear Mr. Walder:
Hard working parents and students should not be punished for the MTAs poor planning and mismanagement of its budget. The proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program as a means of balancing the MTA budget is unacceptable and should be taken off the table immediately.
The free-fare student program accounts for less than 2\% of the total MTA budget, and the State has not pulled its weight to fund this program as promised. However, eliminating such an important program to close a relatively small gap would be extremely shortsighted and detrimental to New York Citys future. While other jurisdictions rely on a yellow school bus to get their children to school, in New York City the yellow MetroCard is our school bus, which 400,000 students rely on every day to travel to school and participate in after-school activities. Cutting the Student MetroCard program is not the answer to the MTAs budget shortfall, and we will not stand for its proposed elimination.
The MTA must act responsibly and consider a wide range of budget solutions before placing this financial burden on parents and students. We urge you to withdraw the MTA proposal to cut the free and reduced fare Student MetroCard program.
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Liz Galst
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Erica Baum
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- This is urgent!
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Annette Johnson
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Jennifer Hill
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Cal Johnson
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PAUL HOVITZ
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Michele Herman
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Amy Loewenberg
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- If we lived anywhere else in NY State, my son would be getting free bus service to go to school. This is extremely unfair to NYC children who rely on the metrocard to get them to school.
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Luis Rodriguez Jr.
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- MTA budget process and financial controls must be reviewed
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Patti Feinman
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Sally Caswell
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David Weinberger
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Theresa Robinson
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- unacceptable
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Patrick Goss
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Alberto Cruz
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- Punishing seniors, students and people with disabilities is no way to balance a budget.
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Bridget Coleman
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- I am a single mom of (3) school age children. My civil servant job does not afford me the option of paying transportation fees for (3) children daily, as well as my own transportation expenses. I am the epitome of the working poor, and I am getting poorer by the minute. "There has to be a better way to resolve this MTA dilemma"!
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Carol Turturro
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- Public School Parent
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ann chanler
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Ana Milosevic
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Julia
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- Congestion pricing and tolls on East and Harlem River bridges can provide funding for the MTA and deter service cuts.
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Adam Feinberg
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- Cutting student metrocards will have a desvasting effect on our city- and I write this as a single guy with no kids
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Sharon Albert Kaplan
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- Taking away student metrocards is beyond absurd. My children walk to school and we could afford it should we have to, but for many New Yorkers, paying is not an option and children will end up dropping out of school!
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ronnie simon
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Frank Fuchs
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Nancy Bodurtha
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Louis Cholden-Brown
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Joan Silverman
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Peter Flynn
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Brenda Karlin
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colette belfor
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Toni Robinson
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Pia Brancaccio
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Michelle Cherry
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- Please, have a heart!
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Vanessa Ramos
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Helen Rogers
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Greta Schiller
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- are you crazy at the MTA?
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Courtney Falk
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Nancy Linday
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Patricia Parker
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karen trott
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- these cuts are unconscionable
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holly simonds
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Elinor King
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- Cut the hours on the W, don't eliminate it. Please do not eliminate the school bus passes. That is an unacceptable double whammy to visit on the parents and children of our city.
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Rebecca Carel
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- Why not charge seniors full fare during rush hour? Many of us are still working and can afford full fare to and from work.
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Gia Nafarrete
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claudine henri
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- THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!!!! OUR CHILDREN WILL STOP GOING TO SCHOOL IF WE CAN NOT AFFORD TO GIVE THEM TRANSPORTATION MONEY..... STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!
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Beth Bernett
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JOSE MUNOZ
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Channa Camins
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john pierse
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- children and students should alway ride free,this is not negotiable
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Jodi Isman
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