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According to the most recent Census Bureau survey data, 3 percent of New Yorkers take a taxi, bicycle or motorcycle to work, 11 percent walk and 30 drive. Fifty-six percent take public transportation. While New York City Transit's proposed cuts will generally hurt those groups most dependent on public transit—in other words, people with lower income—the geographic distribution of the cuts will shape their demographic impact. In its latest round of revisions in March, the MTA restored service on a bus that links Harlem and the South Bronx. But it left in place its cut to the Staten Island Railroad's service to the Yankees' minor league baseball stadium.
