New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority looking to lease stations and trains to Disney
(News | Source: New York Sun)
The New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority is creating a proposal to bring to the Walt Disney Company that could raise millions of dollars and push back a potential fare hike. The MTA is looking to lease subways or stations to Disney and allow them to control the station. This would allow for things like a “Lion King” mural painted in the station or on trains.
Instead of raising subway fares, “I would rather try to sell 42nd Street’s subway system underground to Disney for $60 million a year and have them paint it any way that they want to paint it,” Mr. Seabrook, president of the city’s Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, said at yesterday’s board meeting.
