BID FOR FREE SUBWAYS
By JEREMY OLSHAN

February 12, 2007 -- Don't burn your MetroCard yet, but a group of mass-transit advocates is lobbying to make the subway system free.

Under the plan, the turnstiles would be torn down - while the cost of driving into Manhattan would be dramatically increased .

Environmentalist Theodore Kheel has funded a $100,000 study conducted by mass-transportation advocate George Haikalis of the Institute for Rational Urban Mobility to prove the plan could work. Congestion pricing forces drivers to pay a toll for driving in certain heavily traveled areas and at certain times.

"Portland and Seattle offer free transit on bus and light-rail lines within their central business districts," Haikalis said.

Some transit advocates doubt it would be feasible, given the MTA's predicted billion-dollar deficit.



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