{"id":908,"date":"2003-01-23T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-23T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/subway_cutbacks\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T20:15:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T03:15:41","slug":"subway_cutbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/subway_cutbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Subway Cutbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here&#8217;s a bit of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayfreemagazine.org\/public\/mta.html\"  title=\"MTA wants to close 177 token booths throughout the city, replacing normal turnstiles with MetroCard-operated gates.\">disturbing news<\/a> about riding NYC subways<\/strong> that&#8217;s being passed on by <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayfreemagazine.org\"  title=\"a print magazine focused on issues surrounding commercialism and American culture\">Stay Free<\/a><\/i> magazine. Apparently, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.nyc.ny.us\/\"  title=\"Metropolitan Transit Authority - the subway and bus people\">MTA<\/a> is planning to close a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.nyc.ny.us\/mta\/booth.htm\"  title=\"Listing of proposed booth closures\">token booths<\/a> through out the city to cut back on costs, with a long-term goal of eliminating even more and relying Metrocard access in most stations. Frankly, for a number of reasons summed up nicely in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stayfreemagazine.org\/public\/mta.html\"  title=\"MTA wants to close 177 token booths throughout the city, replacing normal turnstiles with MetroCard-operated gates.\">that link<\/a>, that idea is completely crackers. The shadiest things I have ever seen or experienced in my 20 or so years riding the subways have almost alwats taken place around unmanned exits and entrances, especially with those floor-to-ceiling turnstiles that are so troublesome. I shudder at the thought of those kinds of weird, dangerous spaces increasing in number around the city.<\/p>\n<p>There are going to be a number of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mta.nyc.ny.us\/mta\/communications\/hearing-fare.htm\"  title=\"Times, dates, and locations of all the hearings\">public hearings<\/a> addressing the propsed fare hikes, closures, and other cost-saving measures, but it also wouldn&#8217;t be such a bad idea to <a href=\"http:\/\/straphangers.org\/complaints.html\"  title=\"List of MTA contacts provided by Straphangers.org\">lodge a complaint or two<\/a> while there&#8217;s still time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of disturbing news about riding NYC subways that&#8217;s being passed on by Stay Free magazine. Apparently, the MTA is planning to close a number of token booths through out the city to cut back on costs, with a long-term goal of eliminating even more and relying Metrocard access in most stations. Frankly, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/23\/subway_cutbacks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Subway Cutbacks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrapolitical"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70766,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/70766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ultrasparky.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}