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12-22-2008, 04:12 AM
Inspired by a now-famous Iraqi reporter, an angry subway rider reached for his shoe at yesterday’s MTA board meeting, just before the agency approved a 2009 budget with service cuts and a whopping 23 percent fare hike.
“Where’s Elliot Sander?” asked Stephen Millies, 54, an Amtrak worker from Jackson Heights who noted the MTA boss took home more than $300,000 last year. “This shoe’s for you.”
He was led away in handcuffs without throwing the shoe, but Millies voiced a message that was not radically different from the 21 other public speakers who addressed the board before its vote.
Lynne Serpe of Astoria was upset by the elimination of the W subway line, but she was fuming about the “absolutely appalling” 150 percent increase in Access-a-Ride fares. Her father has dialysis three times a week.
Sander had called the new budget “draconian,” “very harsh” and “extremely painful.”
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“Where’s Elliot Sander?” asked Stephen Millies, 54, an Amtrak worker from Jackson Heights who noted the MTA boss took home more than $300,000 last year. “This shoe’s for you.”
He was led away in handcuffs without throwing the shoe, but Millies voiced a message that was not radically different from the 21 other public speakers who addressed the board before its vote.
Lynne Serpe of Astoria was upset by the elimination of the W subway line, but she was fuming about the “absolutely appalling” 150 percent increase in Access-a-Ride fares. Her father has dialysis three times a week.
Sander had called the new budget “draconian,” “very harsh” and “extremely painful.”
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