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Date Posted: 11:12:32 02/05/08 Tue
Author: P'd Off
Subject: Re: Fare Increase
In reply to: Unadulterated Bull 's message, "Fare Increase" on 11:50:51 02/04/08 Mon

<a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.wnbc.com/news/15219524/detail.html">http://www.wnbc.com/news/15219524/detail.html</a>
NEW YORK -- New York City's subway stations are getting a fresh paint job.

New York City Transit says it is planning to launch a $50 million effort to give stations a new layer of paint beginning in April.

An agency spokesman, Charles Seaton, says customers want the stations to look attractive. He says a paint job goes a long way toward doing that.

The agency expects to paint 12 stations a year under the program.

Customers seem to like the idea. Straphanger Andrew Snyder tells the Daily News that it can be depressing to see the dirty walls every morning at his station.

Snyder says the entire station needs to be cleaned up -- especially since tolls are going up.

> PAINT? FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS? Maintenance you morons! Maintain the stations and you won't be shoving out 50 MILLION DOLLARS on PAINT! PAINT DOESN'T MAKE ANYTHING ANY BETTER! It covers the real troubles: dirt, filth, urine, feces and that sort of thing. The OLD system had people who washed the tile walls. That was the reason they put tiles there in the first place: to maintain cleanliness! But the TA's become so damned lazy over the years that they wait until it's almost too late to do anything and then they PAINT! Look at the way they redecorated the stations in recent years: They didn't replace anything. They didn't repair anything. Instead, they had panels made to look like new tiles and they put the panels over the rotting walls and tiles. The leaks are still there. The dirt is still there. The rats and roaches are still there. They're just covered over with something pretty.

MTA wants to raise fares? Now they want to paint? They expect ALL New Yorkers to believe that this is a solution and an excuse to raise the fares? Somebody's brains are up their bowels and it sho' ain't mine!

Hey!To:

MTA
H. Dale Hemmerdinger
Chairman
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3739 MTA
Elliot G. Sander
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3739

MTA New York City Transit
Howard H. Roberts Jr.
President
2 Broadway
New York, NY 10004
MTA Long Island Rail Road
Helena E. Williams
President
Jamaica Station
Jamaica, NY 11435-4380
MTA Long Island Bus
Neil S. Yellin
President
700 Commercial Avenue
Garden City, NY 11530-6410

MTA Metro-North Railroad
Peter A. Cannito
President
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3739

MTA Bridges and Tunnels
David Moretti
President (Acting)
Randalls Island
New York, NY 10035-0035

MTA Capital Construction
Mysore L. Nagaraja
President
2 Broadway
New York, NY 10004-2207

MTA Bus Company
Thomas J. Savage
President
347 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10017-3739

Not ALL New Yorkers are stupid and not ALL New Yorkers are falling for your ploys. You play us to be the idiots. Well, we're not. We see what you're pulling and we know what you're doing. You've got no credibility with us.

You want more money for less service and squalid conditions? You might not have the best brains, but you've surely got the biggest bal...

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