Lauren Ashcraft  🌹Compte certifié

youre encouraging criminality. it's outrageous. do you pay any taxes? do you even care that youre driving everyone's taxes up with your criminal suggestions. free everything is why venezuelans now have NOTHING. when you run out of other peoples money there is nothing left. fool!!

Encouraging people of lesser economic means to cheat an unfair system? Hell yeah! You know where part of those MTA fares is going? It's going to renovate ski resorts in upstate New York - it's pork for the rich, on the backs of working-class New Yorkers. Furthermore... (ctd)

...the 2nd Ave Subway, which is primary a vehicle to serve some of the wealthiest areas of Manhattan, is being built at an expense that would cover a complete revamp of the existing system, meaning people in neighborhoods like Borough Park, Gravesend, etc wouldn't suffer...

...constant station closings, train delays and so on - they're increasing the fares not to serve the people who most need access, but to help the wealthy. You think the Upper East Side ever sees stations get closed down for months at a time? Nope. Furthermore, some of the cost...

...of my MetroCard goes towards subsidizing pork projects to install "art" in "important" stations in Manhattan. My Brooklyn station, meanwhile, is rarely cleaned, yet alone receiving of art installations. Please explain to me why I should be funding artworks for Manhattanites...

...when I journey out of Brooklyn/Queens a few times a month? It's like the system is designed to bleed the outer boroughs dry so the wealthiest borough can get goodies. That's capitalism for ya, but I'd like to see every station in Midtown get shut down for a week, and then...

...see how people who use those stations feel about cavalierly shutting down stations like Avenue U for three months, interrupting Brooklyn service and 7 train service regularly, etc. Meanwhile, I encourage every straphanger to do the following things:

- Jump turnstiles whenever you can - Swipe people in when you're on your way out - Open the station doors to let people through - Hold the rear bus doors open to let people on - Teach those in need how to go over / under turnstiles stealthily - MAKE PUBLIC TRANSIT PUBLIC