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Before 1947: Transit Activism before the Straphangers Campaign. Pressure from transit riders and workers kept the fare at a nickel between 1904 and 1947. |
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Conditions like this graffitied car convinced the New York Public Interest Research Group to start the Straphangers Campaign in 1979. That year, trains broke down every 8,000 miles on average. By 2003, trains were 15 times more reliable, going 125,000 miles between mechanical delays. Students active in NYPIRG—like those pictured here—helped lead efforts to turn around the system. |
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| 1980: Pictured here is Marilyn Ondrasik, who founded the Straphangers Campaign with support from the Fund for the City of New York and the New York Foundation. She got the campaign on the map with annual subway report cards. Since then, the campaign has issued more than 50 reports on service, such as those pictured here. Our latest reports are made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and can be found at www.straphangers.org. |
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| 1985: How to raise transit as an election issue? We organized a March for Decent Transit across the Brooklyn Bridge and asked the candidates for mayor to greet us at the Manhattan end. The march featured a human train spitting out paper bolts, and contingents of former Miss Subways and road runners for transit. Transit advocates scored a major victory when they forced Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch to trade in the Westway highway project for $1.5 billion to repair the transit system. |
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1986, 1993, 1995, 2000: “If you want our thanks, fix the subway” — long a rallying cry as advocates won $30 billion in transit rebuilding funds since the 1980's. We've tried it all — from Thanksgiving-themed protests (that leafletter is dressed as an ear of corn!) to hardhitting ads in 6000 subway cars. We've also worked with top officials like State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, pictured here calling for repair of the then-disgraceful Canal Street station complex, since rehabilitated. |
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