| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Sherry Foley | |
| 2 | Anonymous | Its not affordable to live in New York any more. |
| 3 | Cheryll Smerina | Enough is enough. NO MORE FARE HIKES. |
| 4 | Theresa Maira | What ever happen to the $3.00 fare. That is when the express bus was a ride that you want to be on. |
| 5 | Anonymous | This is ridiculous, SI residents are being held captive. |
| 6 | marie marciano | As commuters from the outerboroughs we who are 65plus are denied reduced fare during peak travel time, but those who live & work in the city are given reduced fare at all times. |
| 7 | Denise LaRosa | We should not have to pay more for inferior service. Serivce is slow, overcrowded or may not even show up. |
| 8 | Anonymous | The MTA wishes to put the burden of their inability to properly utilize their assests on the working public.This is not only outrageous( with their inferior service record to staten island)but a slap in the face. |
| 9 | Anonymous | |
| 10 | Chris | The ride isnt even worth 3.00 let alone 5.00 or 5.25! |
| 11 | John P. Tiernan | |
| 12 | Chris | The ride isnt even worth 3.00 let alone 5.00 or 5.25! |
| 13 | Anonymous | |
| 14 | Susan Carilli | From downtown NY to Staten Island should not take an hour and a half, and many times, people are left to stand due to overcrowded buses, creating a potentially dangerous situation should the bus have to suddenly stop. A raise in Express bus fares is ludicrous. |
| 15 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Anonymous | I totally agree that a fare increase is not justified. Most evenings coming home from work I have to stand from the city to Staten Island as the buses are over crowed!!!!! |
| 17 | peter santora | I ride the X17 everyday and I, most of the time, have to let a bus or two go by as there are no seats available. I have stood, only when necessary to get to an appointment and at my age with a heart condition, that is very uncomfortable. More buses are needed at rush hours in both the mornings and evenings.. Please consider. |
| 18 | Raymond Dunleavy | |
| 19 | Yvonne Roga | I cannot believe how much Staten Islanders have to pay to go to work. It is not worth the money considering the commute sometimes takes over two hours. How dare the MTA ask us for an increase. Why don't you increase the the subways to $5.25? See how well that goes over. I'm tired of Staten Islanders being treated like we are all wealthy. Obviously if we work, we need to. Our commute is horrible and not even worth the $5 we are paying now! |
| 20 | Barbara Opulski | Instead of raising everyone's fares why don't you get rid of unlimited cards that whole groups of individuals pass to each other and use all day and night. |
| 21 | Michele Romeo | I oppose this new hike. Express buses are not maintained and cleaned on a regular basis. They are over packed and they do not replace a bus/driver if the drive is out sick causing more overcrowding, plus now I am late for work. I have been on many buses that broken down in mid route. Most notable recently I had to transfer buses on the FDR drive durning rush hour. WHAT IS THE MTA GOING TO DO FOR MY SAFETY AND OTHERS WITH THIS PURPOSED HIKE! I still haven't seen any improvement from the last two hikes.
(STATEN ISLAND, NY) |
| 22 | Lucian Cybruch | |
| 23 | Paula A. Cenci | Another fare hike in general, and for express buses in particular, is unconscionable. MTA should seek to improve service to encourage ridership thus increasing revenues rather than picking the pockets of the riders. |
| 24 | Karen Gillis | I vehemently oppose any rate increase proposed by the MTA! |
| 25 | Emil Fliorent | I strongly oppose the MTA's plan to hike bus fares as well as any toll increase on the Verrazano Bridge. |
| 26 | Anonymous | |
| 27 | Patrick French | I strongly oppose any fare hikes. |
| 28 | sofiya tsvayg | MTA is acting irrresponsibly disgusting. I moved to SI 7 years ago, as of today the fare for express buu up to 70% . The quality and schedule of buses much worse, than 7 years ago.
SI has at least 100000residents, who work in NYC.
The only way to teach MTA lesson is to ask evevry islander to take at least once a week ferry, train or local bus. It will be weekly difference of $6.00 for each person, or $600000 weekly lost of income for MTA.
I understand that once a week evevryone will have difficulties to get to work, but all together we can do.
MTA should cut high bonuses for executive and follow NY mayor steps or at least ask his advise how to deal with financial problems in the company. He did it very well for our New York. |
| 29 | John Marchisello | Tell the MTA to open the books. |
| 30 | Jack Leung | I wholeheartedly agree with our congressman. Why should we pay fare increases if level of service has been steadily decreasing over the past few years? There needs to be a check & balance here and the mta has no right to raise fares at will. |
| 31 | prooney | do not raise fare |
| 32 | Joseph Tuite Jr. | The most obvious point of how inferior the service to/from Staten Island is that is takes on average 75-90 minutes each way to commute from Westerleigh to Mid-town Manhattan. Three hours a day to get to/from work is ridiculous yet Staten Islanders continue to get levied with more fare increases as the quality of life deteriorates due to over crowding, among other things. Our infrastructure was sufficient when there were 100k residents. It is now broken down and unable to handle the 500k residents. Changes need to be made - immediately! |
| 33 | Melvin Bernhardt | |
| 34 | Nadia Digilov | I oppose the MTA's proposed fare hikes |
| 35 | prooney | do not raise fare |
| 36 | prooney | do not raise fare |
| 37 | Anonymous | Staten Islanders already pay a high price for less than adequate service. Express bus riders pay $10 a day for a commute that in most cases takes longer than the commute of out of state residents. Local service does not come anywhere near to meeting the needs of the population - hence so many cars on the roads. |
| 38 | Anonymous | I believe an increase at this time would be outrageous. We are already paying a high price for limited service....(no late buses or weekend buses on most express lines). We just had an increase to $5.00 which in itself was a hardship. |
| 39 | Thomas DeSoye | This proposed fare hike is unwarranted and a slap in the face to SI residents. Until the MTA figures out a way to have buses run on time and less crowded (which will be never) than a fair fare is about $4.00. |
| 40 | Darko Zeletovic | |
| 41 | Kristina Lodzhevskaya | THIS IS NOT FAIR!!! WE PAY AN INSANE AMOUNT OF MONEY AS IT IS ALREADY!!! NOT TO MENTION WE WAIT FOR THE BUS FOREVER AND IT PASSES US BY BECAUSE IT IS PACKED!!! WHY SHOULD WE PAY MORE?? |
| 42 | Gloria Harris | |
| 43 | Viktoriya Lodzhevskaya | this is ridiculous!!! |
| 44 | Eugenia Ostfeld | This is outrageous. MTA is not properly maintaining buses. There is something wrong with almost every bus that I get on which never used to be the case - and now they want to raise rates. When does this madness stop from the most mismanaged company in the world ! |
| 45 | Erena Fliorent | I strongly oppose the MTA's plan to hike bus fares as well as any toll increase on the Verrazano Bridge |
| 46 | Susan Duffy | |
| 47 | Anonymous | |
| 48 | Donna Forminio | |
| 49 | Carmine DeVito | How much of a burden should Staten Islanders bear? Isn't it bad enough it takes twice as long to get into work as it did in the past. Along with higher MTA surcharges on our Keyspan bills. This is a runaway agency. and at some point, Government needs to control it. |
| 50 | Danielle Cruz | |