Write a Letter to the Editor

Express your views to your daily and community newspapers. Submit your letter by mail, fax or email.

Your Community's weekly newspaper(s) often welcome letters from community members and like to print them, no matter how lengthy. Daily newspapers tend to prefer brief letters that respond to their articles, editorials and columns.

Be sure to sign your name and provide your address (either business or home) and a contract phone number. A sample letter to editor regarding Fight the Hike is attached here below, but please put any letters to the editors in your own words!

SAMPLE LETTER

Transit riders are under siege. Just this July the MTA announced a widening budget gap of nearly $900 million and proposed hiking the fare yet again. If the hike is approved it would be the second time in history that the fare has been raised twice consecutively.

Times are tough for everyone, and middle class New Yorkers know a thing or two about making ends meet on a budget. Whether it's buying the generic brand cereal or taking out loans, often times we make adjustments to live within our means. So too the MTA needs to huddle at the kitchen table, take a look at its receipts and expenses, and figure out a game plan: just like everyone else. In fact, a recent report by the Independent Budget Office revealed that City and State funding has been stagnant since 1990. Clearly the MTA has other options to explore before hiking the fare.

In addition, riders expect to get what we pay for. According to the Straphanger's Campaign's 11th Annual State of the Subways Report the overall performance of the subway system was very low.

Car breakdowns worsened from a mechanical failure every 156,624 miles in 2006 to one every 149,646 miles in 2007. Subway car announcements deteriorated from 90% in the second half of 2006 to 85% in the second half of 2007. And two other measures showed no sign of improvement: regularity of arriving trains and car cleanliness.

Given the MTA's line of bad credit there's only one response: DENIED.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME HERE

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