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By Benjamin Kabak. Every day, more than five million people swipe into the New York City subway system, and another two million take the bus. On a typical weekday, then, the equivalent of nearly everyone in New York City rides .... The monthly MetroCard at $104 will run you $1248 per year assuming you don't take any time off for vacations. A bicycle may make sense. But the idea of buying, maintaining, insuring, and operating a car to avoid transit fares is beyond insane. ...
By Benjamin Kabak. As the MTA continues to look for ways to cut costs, the Transport Workers Union Local 100 is continuing to take jabs at MTA CEO and Chairman Jay Walder. As The Daily News' Helen Kennedy reports today, the union will be distributing .... The xenophobic attacks on anyone who vacations in the Riviera and not the Hamptons reinforce business-as-usual and not-invented-here syndrome, and tie in to the savage attacks many of the local unions make on immigrants. ...
