MTA Service Cuts - yet again

The following is a brief letter I sent to Councilman Jim Oddo this morning. This doesn't nearly capture my absolute fury over the issue and the surrounding issues - a pathetic city bureaucracy that does nothing but increase taxes and decrease services, WHILE managing to somehow take away our liberties in a methodical and incremental manner. This mostly just concerns the MTA.



Dear Mr. Oddo

Let me start by wishing you good day. Hope all is well.

I live in Grant City. To get to work in the morning the X9 was the ideal bus, X1 was the backup bus. To hear that they will be slashing our x9 and x1 is purely unacceptable. Look at all of these cuts. It is a crime. Why does Staten Island float the bills for all of these bloated bureaucracies, and then bear the brunt of service cuts which devastate our abilities to commute to work in an acceptable time frame? Bad enough that the poor and disgraceful lack of infrastructure on the Island scares decent jobs away like a rabid dog chasing the mailman.

Why do the taxes of Staten Islanders, who must on the whole commute to Manhattan or New Jersey for any hope of a well paying job, continue to support this nonsense?

Mr. Oddo, you have been a faithful representative on the Council, and I shudder to think of what we may have had if not you in there. BUT - it is LONG past the time to take on the MTA, to get Staten Island's fair share, to improve our infrastructure with a train into Manhattan. No more promises, no more status-quo. Why do you remain oddly silent on such matters when we are getting shanghaied more and more each year by these clowns? It is an all out assault on this borough. Why do we need to pay a toll to get into Brooklyn that costs well over AN HOURS WAGES? How can that be justified?

This city grows more and more tyrannical as the years wear on. And as the years wear on, our patience is wearing thin. In fact, mine is gone.

Sincerely,


Thomas Vendittelli - free citizen of the United States of taxation