Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit. At the same time, Russianoff has also served as a government reform advocate for NYPIRG...
angry god people runs sort subway
Most people feel that there's an angry and indifferent god that runs the subway and it's sort of lashing out at you.
words worries
The words 'defense contractor' kind of worries me.
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Ferrer can't even get heard competing against this grotesque spending.
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There have been criticisms that this fare discount program would only help tourists. We respectfully disagree and think that the bulk of the savings went to regular customers.
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I can't fault them for picking a defense contractor, given all the public pressure to make the subways more secure.
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Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.
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We thought it was a good first step to wire the stations. There is a big difference between the stations and trains.
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For many people they don't have a choice. They take the 4 and the 5 and they have to go through Midtown. If you can take the local, the No. 6, that's a good idea and you definitely have to give yourself extra time. The Transit Authority says there'll be delays of 10 minutes, which always means to me that it will be a lot longer than that.
For everyone, it was a challenge. For many people, it was a hardship. They couldn't get to a doctor's appointment, they couldn't get to the office.
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It's probably a tricky one for Freddy because it's really his constituents that are the most hurt by a fare hike.
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It's disappointing, because there have been dramatic changes.
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It's just troubling that they would try to push it forward when there are technical concerns, community concerns and their own consultant is questioning the wisdom of it.
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It was shocking, in some ways, that somebody who couldn't do business with the city could do data business with the MTA,
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It was staggering that he's already spent $47 million to get elected.