New Yorkers made noise—and the MTA actually listened.

After a six-week comment blitz that generated 1,378 missives from riders, advocates and elected officials, the agency has softened a handful of the fare changes up for a board vote on Tuesday, September 30. As in: fewer “are you kidding me?” moments at the turnstiles and on the rails.

“These changes are being proposed following an extensive public comment period in which 1,378 comments were submitted from customers, advocates and elected officials across the service area,” the MTA said in a statement released last week.

Here’s the useful stuff: The weekly cap for subway and bus riders—the thing where you ride free after 12 paid taps in seven days—won’t jump to $36 after all; it’s now proposed at $35. That’s a hair under a 3-p

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