The
Mayor and
others are pressing state senate majority leader Malcolm Smith (pictured) to do something to head off the
oncoming MTA "doomsday" budget. Smith and his allies are expected to
unveil a plan today with fare increases and payroll taxes -- both smaller than what the
Ravitch Commission proposed in December. Neither does it include, we are told, the
bridge tolls the committee suggested and the Democrats in the assembly favor. The plan is portrayed as a "stopgap," which is discouraging. Neither Governor Paterson
nor the MTA seems to be going for it, and a representative of the Straphangers Campaign says it "seems crazy to me."
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