Best Comment Of The Day: Just Part Of The Problem

Anonymous has left the following comment on the post "On June 27th, Say Good-Bye To The B71 And B75 Bus Lines":

MTA mismanagement may be part of the problem, but the primary reason that the agency is out of money, year after year, is because the state government takes it away, plain and simple. Albany simply removed hundreds of millions of dollars from the MTA budget, including money that had already been allocated to the agency.

Public transit needs public money in order to keep running and keep fares low. The MTA isn't getting it from our government. Too few New Yorkers seem to realize this. There would be more hope for a resolution if we identified the correct problem.

Some more info here (also recommend looking around this blog in general): http://www.streetsblog.org/2010/03/09/albany-didnt-cut-the-mta-budget-they-stole-from-it/