Sign the Petition - No Fare Hike!

State Senator Carl Marcellino of the 5th Senate District has a petition to stop the LIRR fare increase slated for 2008. Go here to sign it:
http://www.senatormarcellino.com/jtf.asp

It's beyond incredible that the MTA LIRR would even ask for a fare hike and not even look to aggressively cut costs or deliver greater value. Their plan is to deliver mediocre (at best) service, continue to drone on about 'watching the gap' without actually fixing the problem and continue to feed our hard-earned dollars to this moribund cherade of a railroad until the public is totally milked of any value. That's called the tipping point - when people start driving into Queens and getting on the subway to bypass the railroad altogether.

In the real world of private sector business, the name of the game is deliver value or perish.

Unfotunately, this does not apply to quasi-governmental organizations.