29 Quotes by Gene Russianoff

The only pledge I'd believe is, if either one or both of them said, 'I'm going to be mayor in 2007 and, if the MTA has a deficit, I'll fill it with city money,'

Most people feel that there's an angry and indifferent god that runs the subway and it's sort of lashing out at you.

I can't fault them for picking a defense contractor, given all the public pressure to make the subways more secure.

He clearly still harbors a very personal grudge from the December negotiations. And that doesn't augur well for the near future.

Pataki's got to make up his mind. If he keeps asking the feds for billions for both . . . New York will wind up with nothing.

Traditionally, all the mayors that have been around during the time I've been around - Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani and Bloomberg - their hearts are not in the subways. The state runs them.

We thought it was a good first step to wire the stations. There is a big difference between the stations and trains.

Twenty-five years ago, your trains broke down all the time, they were covered in graffiti and you had no incentive to use transit. Billions of dollars later, your trains are reliable and you get discounts the more you use the system. The lesson of all this is, if you invest in transit, the riders will come.

There have been criticisms that this fare discount program would only help tourists. We respectfully disagree and think that the bulk of the savings went to regular customers.