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One thing the stimulus bill would not do is save riders from a planned fare increase or service cuts.
Rail commuters benefited too as a planned fare increase was reduced, but air passengers lost out after the government pressed ahead with plans for increases in flight taxes.
Campaigners called for the savings to be passed on to passengers by curbing planned fare rises.
Flyers have been handed out in subway cars in the rush hour, urging travellers to boycott the MTA's planned fare increases.
The base fare for subways and buses "probably will go up," the chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said on Monday, supplying the most telling signal yet about how next year's planned fare increase is likely to be carried out.
He said the coalition government has taken pro-active steps to cut the planned fare rises from 3% to 1% above inflation until 2014.
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That plan called for biennial fare increases; the transit authority is also planning fare increases in 2015 and 2017.
New Jersey Transit does not plan fare increases for now, Jeffrey Warsh, its executive director, said, but would ask the state for more money.
But as economic hard times have reduced tax revenues and increased demand for government transit subsidies, its experiences may provide valuable lessons for larger cities that are planning fare increases, like New York, Minneapolis and Cleveland.
He will also inherit a planned 9.6percentt fare increase, which is expected to go into effect on June 1.
Union leaders urged the government to suspend planned rail fare increases next month after accusing train companies of "failing" to deliver services because of the snow.
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