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Harvard's sustainable transportation program, specifically its transit subsidy for employees, was recently recognized by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation with an Excellence in Commuter Options (ECO) award.
Now when you pay, on the Triborough Bridge, a toll of $1.75, $1.40 of that toll winds up paying the transit subsidy.
Mr. Bloomberg's somewhat cryptic suggestion that he might reduce the transit subsidy came at a time when many transit experts say that a bus and subway fare increase is inevitable anyway next year.
According to the 2018 Employee Benefits: The Evolution of Benefits report from SHRM, 13% of companies offer a transit subsidy, 12% a qualified transportation spending account and 4% a carpooling subsidy.
Transportation officials said administrators asked them to cut $1 million from their budget, and they chose the $1.1-million 1.1-millionsidy program.
In recent months, it has been City Council that has pressed the mayor on issues like congestion pricing and a transit subsidy program for low-income New Yorkers called Fair Fares, the latter of which was successful.
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All are eligible for appropriate transit subsidies.
Mass transit subsidies are hard to challenge at the W.T.O. because they involve an almost purely domestic government service.
If the city were to cut its transit subsidies, the M.T.A. would stand to lose state money as well.
The opening of the downtown subway line in 1985 pushed up costs as Federal transit subsidies were slashed.
Many board members lamented on Wednesday that higher fares were required, in the absence of greater transit subsidies, but none opposed the plan's passage.
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