Look at this! The State Comptroller also thinks that the MTA is not very cost effective. The first sentence of the NY Post story pretty much sums it up:"The MTA is weighed down with managers, marketing types and p.r. staffers - fat the agency should trim before it slashes service, hikes fares or creates new bridge tolls, state auditors told The Post."
You can read the rest of the story here. Of course I would add that the MTA has valuable assets that it lets sit around unused for years and years. The Post doesn't talk about those things, but it should. Maybe that is their next exclusive (HINT HINT - Send me an email!).
Of course, everyone knows that the MTA has lots of fat to cut. In fact between this blog and The Post I bet we could cover half of the budget gap. How is that?! How are we letting the MTA raise fares to $3 before we demand that they run a lean operation? How are we letting them cut service when there are many other ways to reduce the budget? Its bad enough that we give these people money and we accept that they cannot maintain their decrepit stations. Lets get a little accounting going! Sell that vacant, decrepit building that is an insult to riders and passers-by, let someone else take care of it and use the revenue for station maintenance.
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