{"id":3413,"date":"2009-04-02T06:52:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T13:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/?p=3413"},"modified":"2015-11-03T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:01:35","slug":"services-reduced-costs-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/services-reduced-costs-raised\/","title":{"rendered":"services reduced, costs raised"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hlp6rttuklrq3choylso3alvo1_500\"<\/p>\n

Get your shit together MTA. You’re about to lose ridership.<\/p>\n

At $103\/month I can AFFORD a bicycle for $200 and it will pay for itself in two months. Of course I won’t be able to ride it EVERYWHERE, but I will be able to significantly reduce my daily trips on subways to twice-weekly trips, especially with better weather approaching. I’ll buy 7-day unlimited cards when I can take advantage of them and use a topped-up card with bonus fees when I’m only looking for single journeys, but overall you can expect to receive around $300-$600 less a year from me at the older fees, or around $375-$750 less a year at the increased fare. Your choice.<\/p>\n

Why don’t people who live and work in the city get access to reduced fares and tourists pay a premium for services?<\/p>\n

their press release regarding the fare hike<\/a>, which went into effect 25th March.<\/p>\n

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Get your shit together MTA. You’re about to lose ridership. At $103\/month I can AFFORD a bicycle for $200 and it will pay for itself in two months. Of course I won’t be able to ride it EVERYWHERE, but I will be able to significantly reduce my daily trips on subways to twice-weekly trips, especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[315,938],"series":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-mta","tag-subway"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/hlp6rttuklrq3choylso3alvo1_500.jpg?fit=417%2C657&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-T3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15328,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions\/15328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}