Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials were met with heavy opposition Wednesday night in the Bronx as they continue to get public feedback on a list of cost-cutting proposals that could put the brakes on some of the borough's bus and train lines.

MTA Chairman & CEO Jay Walder and other officials heard hours of testimony at the Paradise Theatre on the Grand Concourse.

The MTA says the cuts are necessary to help close a budget gap of more than $750 million.

Under the plan, Access-a-Ride for the elderly and disabled could also be reduced.

Angry residents who attended the meeting said MTA big wigs should give back to save money.

"When you go through the tolls, pay tolls like everybody else. Give up your city cars and drive your own car and pay for your own parking," shouted one Bronx resident.

"To hear seniors will be dropped off to bus stops and train stations and services reduced is absolutely unacceptable," said State Assemblywoman Vanessa Gibson.

A group of students also gathered outside the theatre and chanted their opposition to the agency's plans to phase out discount student MetroCards.

"Taking away MetroCards will lead to increased drop out rates. Criminal rates will increase for youth. There would be a huge impact on kids hopping the bus causing them to get locked up," said one Bronx student.

Walder says he is listening to all of the concerns from people from around the city, but says some hard decisions have to be made.

"I think fundamentally the real problem in Albany is not the political problem, but it's the economic crisis that's facing the state," said Walder. "It takes away options, it makes it more difficult and I think it's made a much more limited discussion than what we might have had in other times."

With the Bronx being the poorest county in the city, some residents said they will be hit the hardest if the cuts go through.