The MTA is facing significant financial challenges, yet it continues to fund questionable projects, like replacing benches with 'leaning bars' to deter vagrants. Critics argue that instead of investing in ineffective programs, the MTA should directly address fare evasion and homelessness through law enforcement. The agency's budget has significantly increased over the years with no clear improvements in service. Now, the MTA is asking taxpayers for an additional $4 billion, despite receiving substantial state and federal funds, leading to skepticism about its financial management and priorities.
If the MTA is so very, very broke, why is it burning cash on pathetic "pilot projects" like tearing out benches...?
The agency won't even come clean on the obvious goal, namely to stop vagrants from sleeping on the benches.
Instead, the agency keeps spending on futile "experiments" - one set of new turnstiles, then another; security guards...?
While the MTA refuses to address farebeating, it has the gall to ask city taxpayers to cough up $4 billion over the next four years.
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