Where will all New Yorkers go?
I was recently relaxing at home, watching NY1 (I’ve decided to start paying attention to local news- after my fiascos on the 7, I realized it was kind of important to me), and what I saw was more frightening than my memory of when I spilled hot coffee on my new laptop (it still works, calm down!)
Starting in early 2009 subway fares are to be raised from $2.00 to $3.00!! Express bus fares are to be raised from $5.00 to $7.00!! But…..but…..
No-one has any money!! How will we get to work, and to school? It was blasphemous enough when the $2 bonuses they gave on MetroCards went down to $1.50. What the shit am I supposed to do with a buck-50 bonus when each way is two freaking dollars!?
Of all things, raising the price of transportation is the most PAINFUL of all solutions to help this economy! Increase the price of soy milk for god’s sake! Instead of getting RID of a few lines (yes, not only are they making it more expensive to take public transit, but also wayyy more difficult), make, say, Whole Foods prices- which I already laugh at- higher. At least the picky eaters who shop there can feel, I don’t know, more elite? That they’re spending more money on….lettuce and cheese? Shopping at Whole Foods is like saying you only drive BMWs. Ahh…I digress!!
Please, MTA…don’t do this to me! Don’t do this to New Yorkers!! The 7 has taken too many of my tears. Too much of my BLOOD! (Hey, I stubbed my toe on the door, once, okay! and it reallly hurt!)
Where will all the New Yorkers go?