Oh, MTA, you make it remarkably easy for the collective New York City populace to demise you with much fire. When you aren’t jacking up fares, you’re slashing service. While you’re crying broke, you’re digging massive tunnels for new subway lines. Though we begrudgingly recognize that you do get us to work on time at I would assume is a pretty high clip, we’re fed up with your shenanigans. [More...] And, according to the Indypendent newspaper, a handful of commuters are royally sticking it to you the best way they know how: by hitting you in the pocket.
One major holiday down, one to go. We hope all of you LifeStyler readers had a fantastic Thanksgiving Holiday (and long weekend), complete with home cooked meals and family gatherings. Ours consisted of alternately inhaling baked macaroni and candied yams while watching old Twilight Zone re-runs on the tube. But then we got down to business and compiled our favorite posts from the month of November in our monthly mashup of cheap, thrifty, and fabulous articles from LifeStyler and beyond the blogosphere. Keep reading for our November Editor’s Picks.
Get ready to be bludgeoned once again with a ridiculous increase in public transportation costs. It looks highly likely that the MTA will once again be digging deep into the pockets of New Yorker’s to fill their ever-increasing budget gaps. The Daily News speculated that the MTA will likely increase the base fare from $2.00 to $2.50 or $3.00, all the while cutting evening service down and possibly nixing Z,G, and M service. As another addition, disabled and express bus riders can possibly expect an increase in fares from $2 to $4 for Access-a-Ride and from $5 to $7.50 for Express buses.
I heard recently that the MTA is set to start increasing their advertising revenues even more with the emergence of new ad covered trains, neighborhood-targeted video ads on buses, and wrapped ads around some of the turnstiles (which I’ve already seen in the 42nd St Q station). With the talks of hiking the MetroCard up EVEN MORE, alternative transportation has been on my mind a lot lately. Since lowering the fares (or at least keeping them frozen) is most likely not an option, here are four ways to save some of your cash from being wasted on transportation.
