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BROOKLYN WEEKLY, FEBRUARY 16, 2020
Coney Island Councilman Mark Treyger wants to eliminate fares on city buses and subways.
Photo by Andrew Kist
SUBWAY FARES
100 cities worldwide already offer free
public transport, and the change would
incentivize New Yorkers to ditch their
cars in favor of mass transit, he added.
“No one should go to jail over $2.75,
just like no one goes to jail for skipping
an EZ Pass toll,” Treyger said.
In addition to opening up the city’s
transit system to cash-strapped New
Yorkers, proponents argue that the bill
would eliminate the cost of administering
and enforcing fares, allowing the
MTA to scrap its finicky MetroCard machines
and OMNY systems — which allow
riders to swipe through using their
phones and cost the city $644 million to
install.
The move would also render Governor
Andrew Cuomo’s controversial
scheme to combat fare evasion by hiring
an additional 500 transit cops — projected
to cost taxpayers an estimated
$900 million over the next decade — obsolete.
Hundreds of protesters took to Grand
Central Station two weeks ago to decry
the increase in cops and the $2.75 fare,
which activists argue will disproportionately
burden the city’s least fortunate.
“F–k your $2.75, no cops in the MTA,
free transit, no harassment period and
full accessibility,” said a member of Decolonize
This Place, the advocacy group
that organized the protest and has long
fought for the free transit, in a video.
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