T: Is for transit hikes again?

Ok, so I personally think the MTA is the biggest rip off around. They have a monopoly on the way people get around. They have lied about what they own and if they really are completely in debt and now.... two months after the MTA raised fares 10 percent, officials now say they cannot rule out another increase next year to fund an arbitrator's ruling granting transit workers a hefty raise. Now again I have a problem with this because a lot of the workers are the nasty people around. Just because you belong to a union does not give you the right to be a ass. Wasn't there a time when the customer was right? Now it seems like a line in a fairy tale. The ruling grants members of Transit Workers Union Local 100 wage hikes of 11 percent from this year through 2011, including 4 percent this year, 4 percent next year and 3percent in 2011. The MTA had budgeted for only a 1.5 percent increase next year. MTA officials say the contract will cost the agency $350 million more over the next three years. "This award is extremely disappointing and fails to recognize the economic recession in the region and the impact of this downturn on the MTA," Helena Williams, the agency's interim chief executive director, said in a statement. "There will be a significant impact on the MTA's bottom line."

The MTA, which state lawmakers rescued from an unprecedented $1.8-billion budget deficit, enacted 10 percent fare hikes in June. It had not planned for another increase until 2011, when fares are slated to rise 7.5 percent.

MTA board member Mitchell Pally of Stony Brook said the agency "can't take anything off the table" for next year, including another hike. My question is how much are the executives getting now???? These are F.A.C.T.S we need to know.