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...
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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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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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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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Most people feel that there's an angry and indifferent god that runs the subway and it's sort of lashing out at you.
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The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'
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Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.
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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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He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.
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Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.
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Arbitration - in which the rank and file will have no vote - is a recipe for potential unrest for years to come.
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A rash of broken machines is not expected. The board is doing a better job of training poll watchers and they're maintaining the machines better.
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I'm worried about the politicians trying to use the money for things that make them look good and still leave the riders holding the bag.
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I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway. That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.
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I'm not big on the mayor taking the subway, ... That doesn't make up for the fact that he cut the city's contribution to the MTA capital program from $100 million a year to $75 million. It doesn't make up for his voting for the first fare hike and cuts in elevator operators and station booth attendants.