A People’s History of MTA Fare Hikes
In 1987, Brooklynites were still suggesting free service. “I have never understood why, in a city such as this, with its brutal social problems and economic inequities, mass transit should not be considered a municipal service like police protection, education or garbage collection,” Nancy Reynolds wrote. “Municipal services are paid for, through taxes, by those residents who can best afford them—the people who derive the greatest economic benefits from living in New York.”