The $130 deal is if they had done both the real unlimited and the 90-rides-a-month thing at the same time. The real unlimited by itself is $104, and paying an extra $5 for a real unlimited is probably worth it.

There are people who need to take more than two trips a day for work reasons, so I'm glad the real unlimited is retained. As a two-trip a day commuter, I have to start doing some math to see if this is really worth it for me compared to the limited card. Right now I break even, but I want to start using the subway less because of the overcrowding, which has been increasing as train frequency has been cut.

Bring back the commuter tax, and keep or fairs lower. No reason Greenwich Connecticut and Gold Coast Long Island shouldn't be paying their fair share. They use our infrastructure daily and do not pay for it.

Thats crazy. Guess people better start walking or biking to where ever they have to be going.

Unlimited bus-metro here in Montreal C$70. If you add the train. Its pretty much the same price as that.

Well, our Unlimited is subway and bus, so I guess we're even. I was just in Ottawa and I can't believe the taxes you guys have to shell out. I even heard on the news that it's legal there to put a tax on a tax. Something about GST and the metro for students. Now that's ridiculous!

Yup. We get tax on top of tax.

In Ontario and a few other provinces theres this new thing called HST. Which combines the GST and the Provincial Sales Tax.

By 2012, Quebec going to be one of the most heavily taxed provinces yet again.

ha, i knew that $99 option for the 90-ride card was a joke.

The MTA and Port Authority have to be dismantled.

yeah we couldn't POSSIBLY raise taxes on the rich because god knows they might leave new york city! i mean, god forbid the rich have to pay any more in taxes, they might stop spending their money on boats and champagne and donations to republicans.

no no. let's make everyone else pay. i mean, most new yorkers *can't* leave. and hell, since the rich already have most of the disposable income, it's not like this will cut into their spending plans! so what's a 10% tax increase? most people have sitting around another $180/year to hand over to the state.

and hey if you regular folks can't afford this, then just pick up an extra job working for the master race, uh i mean the wealthy. they'll have plenty of money lying around thanks to the low tax rate. i am sure they'll need a nanny or a driver or someone to polish their golden dildos.

Absolutely but if Bloomberg hears you he'll go ape shit. If you even mention taxes and the rich in the same sentence he goes crazy. But he loves to see the poor suffer, remember he's a philanthropist.

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Agreed.

The beatings will continue until morale improves, slave.

Trust me, bloomy wouldn't be able to figure out a way to tax them even if he wanted to. I am sure you all know most corporations are registered in Delaware and all them rich people have a permanent address out of state where there's hardly any tax. You do know all this don't you?

Need to fire this Walder clown who made a SURPLUS disappear in a matter of a few years, make him accountable for all the public outrage against the MTA.

How did Walder make the MTA surplus disappear "in a few years" when:

1) He's only been on the job since 2009

2) The MTA had a DEFICIT in 2009

"The time is 2005, and the MTA has determined that they will enjoy a $928-million budget surplus for that fiscal year."

It took 5 years to get to where we are now, 1 billion+ disappeared off the radar. They are now in the red and still in charge, they must be GOOD FRIENDS with BLOOMIE.

Yeah, it's called "the real estate collapse."

Blame Albany for forcing MTA to rely on the volatile real estate market for operating expenses.

Then make his predecessors accountable as well. In the real corporate world, what investor sitting in a boardroom would let a business go down the drain like that? Oh wait, we are talking about the PUBLIC MTA boardroom, never mind.

'Open wide?' More like 'bend over.'

Indeed!