Every "disaster" is simply an excuse to send money to their cronies!-----MTA to use grant money to get into the minds of fare evaders

MTA wasting $1M to study ‘psychology’ of fare beaters — as agency cries poverty, pushes for congestion pricing - Aneeta Bhole 

They’re bending over backwards to waste cash on turnstile jumping.

• The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to spend up to $1 million in federal grant money on a study they hope will help them understand the mindset of the average fare evader...
• The pricy research – which comes as the authority is crying poverty and pushing for a detested congestion pricing plan — is being blasted by critics as a huge waste that will only tell them what anyone with common sense already knows about scofflaws...