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@kims a suggestion: those of us that live far away from NY would like to agree with your post. You can provide a longer context in the ALT text to keep the message visually clean.

Is that the price for 1 ride?

@wtrmt
It is indeed. I thought about putting a link to the story, but given that it's got 90 boosts and 100+ favorites already, I'm guessing people know what it's about

I'm reluctant to update the alttext because I hate sending edit notifications to the 90 boosters, but I can put a brief explanation here in this comment:

Four people were shot, including a NY police officer, when officers opened fire while pursuing a subway rider who didn’t pay his $2.90 fare

The subway should be free

@kims @wtrmt

1. It was wrong of the cops to shoot him, let alone fire into a crowd killing a cop and 2 civilians.

2. Mass transit should ideally be free.

3. That station is a rare exception in that it's ADA accessible. But unless my origin, destination, and any transfer points all have elevators, I can't go. The MTA is legally obligated to fix this, but they can't because they don't have the funding for operations, repairs, and upgrades. Congestion pricing "pause" makes that worse.

mark

@WearsHats @kims @wtrmt yet somehow the city has billions of dollars for more and more cops to chase that 2.90