Council members Joseph Addabbo and John Liu will unveil a new campaign tomorrow calling the city and the state to increase funds for transit. Their goal is to put the brakes on an MTA fare hike. The two are annoucing their efforts outside MTA’s Midtown headquarters Tuesday morning. A report released last week by the city’s Independent Budget Office stated that city and state funding for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has remained flat since about 1990. The MTA, facing nearly $1 billion operating budget deficit next year is preparing to increase fares and tolls by 8 percent in July 2009. Fares also went up in March 2008. A hike next year would be the first consecutive increase since 1980 and 1981.
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