MetroCards Make Good Coasters

It seems a group of mass-transit advocates is hoping to make [traveling our fine subway system free]. But do we dare do away with those [iron maidens ](http://www.nypress.com/blogx/category_blogs.cfm?day=1&startmonth=2&startyear=2007&category=818365318)we've come to love? Well don’t get your panties de-bunched yet. While those pesky MetroCards would be made obsolete underground, the cost of driving into the city would be increased—a lot. The New York Post reports that environmentalist [Theodore Kheel is the modern Nikola Tesla-like radical ](http://www.nysun.com/article/48469)who 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. Nevertheless, there are some transit advocates who doubt this, considering the billion-dollar deficit the MTA is considered to shoulder.

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