MTA To End E-Z Pass Freebies (Updated 2X)
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Sources in Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office said that the Metropolitian Transportation Authority has agreed to no longer let authority members use E-Z Pass tags unless the use is specific for authority business.
This week, Cuomo dropped the hammer on the MTA and the Thruway Authority after it was revealed that authority members were getting free E-Z Pass tags.
The Thruway Authority relented yesterday and said its seven current and former members will no longer use the tags. But MTA vowed yesterday to challenge Cuomo in court.
Yet apparently the MTA has thought otherwise, and Cuomo has planned a 2:30 p.m. presser in New York City to announce the new developments.
Updated 2: Here’s some of Cuomo’s statement:
“The MTA is right to change course and alter its policies relating to current and former board members getting free E-ZPasses for life. No longer will board members get a free ride while everyday New Yorkers pay their own way. The MTA, like all government agencies, must follow the law like everyone else. ”
Updated: Here’s state Sen. Eric Adams, D-Brooklyn, and Sen. Andrew Lanza, R-Staten Island, calling on the MTA to give up its E-Z Pass benefits.
The best line from Adams: “I volunteer as a member of the Boy Scouts. I shouldn’t get free cookies for life. It makes no sense.”
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Next Adams will be going after the COPS who ride the MTA trains free. When Adams was flashing his badge when he was a COP for freebies it was OK though?
Hey Adams,
Nice one, but the Boy Scouts don’t sell cookies. That would be the Girl Scouts.
Another brain surgeon.
Another Einstein. E pluribus unum. We may as well all be in Sri Lanka. You have to take a test to be a garbageman or a mail clerk. Others need only show up at political rallies, lick envelopes and wait in line. They end up, if not the Commissioner of something or other, the Director of Nonsense somewhere, or a senator or assemblyman.