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Most NYC subway trains already have two-person crews, even when only one person (at most) is needed: NYU Marron Institute\u2019s researchers this year found that, of the train systems used in the numerous cities they surveyed, \u201cfewer than 6.25%\u201d use two-person crews.<\/p>\n
Bad enough MTA officials, heeding governors\u2019 wishes, repeatedly OK union contracts with the wasteful practice.<\/p>\n
But Blakeman would take the issue off the table completely and force two-person crews by law, even if the union would agree to one person, in exchange for, say, a larger pay hike.<\/p>\n
By the way, not only would one-person trains save money; they\u2019d also allow the MTA to run trains more frequently \u2014 so commuters would benefit, too.<\/p>\n
Kudos to Hochul for vetoing the bill.\u00a0Truth is, both she and Blakeman should be demanding more one-person trains, not codifying featherbedding.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Blakeman needs to realize that governors represent all the people, not just special interests.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s Lesson No. 1, if he really wants the job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If pandering to public-worker unions is Bruce Blakeman\u2019s idea of how he\u2019s going to beat Gov. Kathy Hochul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1626,304,3677,3410,426,141,9,11,10,49,51,50,13895,299,4281,25637,1687,2780,19147,8397],"class_list":["post-85299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bruce-blakeman","tag-editorial","tag-governors","tag-illegal-immigrants","tag-kathy-hochul","tag-mta","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-ny-governor-election-2026","tag-opinion","tag-state-budget","tag-subway-fare","tag-subways","tag-taxes","tag-trains","tag-transport-workers-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}