Subway Fare Hike May Never Have Been Necessary

Man, this ticks me off to just about no end and proves why governments are utterly useless and stupifingly dumb:

"A state audit has concluded that the Metropolitan Transportation Authority secretly shifted hundreds of millions of dollars in surplus money to create the appearance of a huge deficit in 2003, misleading transit riders about the need for a fare increase this year, according to officials involved in preparing the audit.... The internal books, which the comptroller received after issuing subpoenas, showed that a substantial surplus in 2002 could have been used to shore up budget problems this year and would actually have left a small surplus, enough to put off a fare increase." (NY Times)