Feld blasts MTA rate hikes
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Larchmont Mayor Liz Feld, a Republican candidate for State Senate in Westchester County’s 37th District, yesterday ripped The Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s plan to increase tolls and transit fares.
In a release, Feld said raising rates is “yet another example of New York taxpayers being stuck with the bill for Albany’s lack of fiscal discipline and planning.â€
“New York State government is totally unprepared for an economic down cycle that virtually every economist in America has been predicting for the past four years,†Feld wrote. “New York has a $122 billion budget; how is it possible that we have no rainy day fund to help weather tough economic times?â€
The transit agency this week proposed raising the fares and tolls 8 percent in July 2009 to help close a projected budget shortfall of $900 million.
Feld is running against longtime Democratic State Senator Suzi Oppenheimer. The 37th State Senate district includes Briarcliff Manor, Ossining, Chappaqua, New Castle, North Castle, Port Chester, White Plains, Rye, Rye Brook, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Larchmont, Scarsdale, and New Rochelle.
Read transportation reporter Ken Valenti’s story here.
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