The MTA is wasting billions on NYC’s congesting pricing plan
With congestion pricing now underway, the tone-deaf misfits at the MTA are taking a victory lap on just about every news network they can, touting how visionary their regressive tax is while claiming it will lead to better and safer mass transit.
Forgive me for being pessimistic, but if you buy what the MTA is selling, I have a bridge or two to sell you!
These are the same folks who had their most recent Five-Year Capital Plan shot down by two of the biggest spenders in New York’s history — legislative leaders Carl Heastie and Andrea Stewart-Cousins — due to their concerns about how on earth the MTA was planning on paying for over half of its proposed $65 billion plan.
This should come as no surprise, though. MTA Chairman and CEO John “Janno” Lieber and the bigwigs at the agency have been spending like drunken sailors for years — so much so that the MTA has more debt than almost 80% of........
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