Stop the Service Cuts
MTA's Manhattan Hearing Is Tonight
Reminder: The only Manhattan hearing on the MTA's proposed service cuts and student fare changes is TONIGHT, March 4, at 6:00 p.m. at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Haft Auditorium, located on Seventh Avenue at 27th Street.
I am urging the MTA not to discontinue the X90 and M27 bus lines, and not to reduce service on the M50.
Eliminating the X90 from the Upper East Side to Lower Manhattan will undercut one of the MTA's clear goals -- accommodating the crushing demand on the East Side corridor, where the 4-5-6 trains and the M15 bus are already operating well over capacity. Similarly, eliminating the M27 would force 2,720 daily commuters onto other overcrowded crosstown routes, and reducing the M50 on top of that will isolate residents of Turtle Bay and Tudor City.
I have already spoken out against the elimination of student MetroCards. Saddling students and their families with an unreasonable cost to get to school is no way to invest in our future. Cutting free student MetroCards can only have a negative effect on families' budgets and students' school attendance.
If you cannot attend tonight's hearing, written comments can be submitted thru the MTA's website here , or by regular mail:
MTA Community Affairs
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017