Of President-elect Barack Obama to create more green jobs. Officials said they made the announcement in Washington because the initiatives proposed in the report were of national significance and because the authority’s sustainability goals meshed with the proposals Under an alternative proposal, the state would step in to bail out the authority, limiting the increase in fare and toll revenues to 8 percent.Īuthority officials traveled to Washington to release the sustainability report at an unusual out-of-town news conference, with New York reporters listening in by telephone. The 30-day unlimited-ride MetroCard could go as high as $103, from $81. That could mean raising the base subway and bus fare to as The authority has said that to plug a gaping budget gap, it must raise fare and toll revenues by 23 percent, with the increases scheduled to begin in June. “I think people may be willing to contribute something like the cost of maybe going to the movies one night to helping green the M.T.A.,” he said. Tollerson said the program might become more successful as the economy improves. The crossings for bridges and tunnels, on a voluntary basis, and say that you might want to contribute a particular sum a month and that money would go into a program only to fund sustainability projects.”Īsked about the timing of making such a proposal while riders face a fare increase, Mr. Tollerson said, “that says that you might add an increment to the price of a MetroCard, a Long Island Rail Road ticket, to a Metro-North ticket and also to Tollerson, the authority’s policy director, said that details were yet to be worked out, but that under the program riders buying MetroCards or commuter rail tickets at station vending machines mightīe given the option of tacking on an extra charge in the form of a contribution for green projects. The idea was included among dozens of proposals made in a $1 million draft report by a special commission created by the authority to recommend ways to lessen the environmental impact of its operations.Įrnest J.

The program would also apply to commuter rail tickets and E-ZPass.

The authority said on Thursday that it was considering a “green MetroCard” program that would let riders make tax-deductible donations to support efforts to make its operations more environmentally sustainable. Thinks that some environmentally conscious riders might want to pay even more for the privilege of jamming onto a crowded train or bus. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning a huge fare increase, but it

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