Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff
Gene Russianoff is staff attorney and chief spokesman for the Straphangers Campaign, a New York City-based public transport advocacy group that focuses primarily on subway and bus services run by New York City Transit. At the same time, Russianoff has also served as a government reform advocate for NYPIRG...
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It's disappointing, because there have been dramatic changes.
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We thought it was a good first step to wire the stations. There is a big difference between the stations and trains.
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Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.
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He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.
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Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.
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Most people feel that there's an angry and indifferent god that runs the subway and it's sort of lashing out at you.
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The words 'defense contractor' kind of worries me.
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There have been criticisms that this fare discount program would only help tourists. We respectfully disagree and think that the bulk of the savings went to regular customers.
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This is a necessary consequence of maintaining the system.
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Arbitration - in which the rank and file will have no vote - is a recipe for potential unrest for years to come.
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A rash of broken machines is not expected. The board is doing a better job of training poll watchers and they're maintaining the machines better.
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The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'
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Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.
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Before the strike, there was considerable sympathy for the workers, but once the strike began, that clearly changed. The real winners are neither labor or management but the public that desperately wanted their subways and buses back.