Demand for MTA Bridges, Tunnels is Down While Subway Demand is Up

2008_11_veraza.jpgInteresting: The Daily News reports that driver demand to use MTA bridges and tunnels has fallen 4.8% when comparing last month's figures (25 million) to October 2007 (when there were 26.3 million drivers). Another stat: Traffic on the Manhattan crossings was down 4% between September and October. One hypothesis is that recent layoffs mean there's less reason to head into Manhattan. However, average weekday subway ridership increased 4.3% "in the 12 months ending Sept. 30," according to the Post. Yeah, cutting subway service is just what we need.

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The $4.00 subway fare and $4.00 slice of pizza is just around the corner.

Obviously. The capitalist pigs are out of work.

DUHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH you can drive when you cant afford the gas!!!!

they should just make the subway a flat 10$ a day (unlimited usage) no matter what!!!

or jack the prices up to 20$ a day (unlimited) and make the trains half the size and run twice as much!!!!

either way they need to clean up the subway system... I'm sick of the pee smell.

Um..Who needs congestion pricing?

Maybe if we spend a few extra millions that we don't have to rename all of them, like is being done with the Triborough, people would use them more often.

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