{"id":943,"date":"2005-01-11T09:14:04","date_gmt":"2005-01-11T13:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/were-smarter-than-we-look\/"},"modified":"2007-07-29T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2007-07-30T00:03:12","slug":"were-smarter-than-we-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/11\/were-smarter-than-we-look\/","title":{"rendered":"We’re smarter than we look."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apparently, the MTA was surprised by the fact that when they raised prices, people in New York immediately changed their metrocard purchasing habits<\/a> to something more advantageous, leaving a really big shortfall (again) in the MTA budget. Wow. It’s almost like they assumed that we’d all be so stupid that we couldn’t figure out that they were fleecing us.<\/p>\n

I personally don’t really have an option when it comes to my metrocard buying habits – I get mine through my office’s transitcheck program, which gives me a yearly (yes, yearly) metrocard and then takes the cost of a monthly card (right now $70, soon to be $76) out of my pre-tax earnings. At my old office, the program allowed us to choose either a monthly or one of the "flat fee" cards – I used to just get two $30 (now $40) cards a month. Because I actually don’t take the subway all the time, this was actually more advantageous for me when I sat down and did the math<\/em> (i.e., the monthly runs out at the end of the month whether you’ve used it once or 100 times, but the fee-based cards can get carried over, and I could actually accumulate them, and then just not get a new card for a month or two). But apparently the MTA thinks that the ordinary rider isn’t quite this sophisticated. Heh. If nothing else, NYC residents are a pretty financially savvy bunch.<\/p>\n

Anyway, there’s a bunch of other transportation-related news today, including the fact that there is going to be a new ferry service<\/a> from lower Manhattan to LaGuardia Airport. I wish I could take advantage of this, since I absolutely love boat rides around the city, but since I live and work near the midtown tunnel, it would be monumentally stupid for me to drag my luggage all the way downtown to take a boat. I would certainly eat up any of the advertised time savings trying to get myself all the way to lower Manhattan.<\/p>\n

Oh, and then the outer borough bus strike<\/a> is still going on. Yep, that’s the way to get the city to not take over your routes. Not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apparently, the MTA was surprised by the fact that when they raised prices, people in New York immediately changed their metrocard purchasing habits to something more advantageous, leaving a really big shortfall (again) in the MTA budget. Wow. It’s almost like they assumed that we’d all be so stupid that we couldn’t figure out that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-new-york-city"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6ZBi-fd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.very-simple.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}