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# NameComments
2701 Dan Gulko
2702 Uri ZakMTA got almost 1Blm surplus and it has no reason to raise fares.
2703 Nancy GinsbergI take the express bus into Manhattan daily. The commute on the Staten Island Expressway has gotten horrendous. It takes between 30-45 minutes to get from the south shore to the express bus lane on the SI Expwy. The only way to make up the time on the Expwy is to take the side streets and the buses are not allowed to do that. There seems to be more trucks on our roads than buses and cars. I am late to work several times a week. We need to fix the problem and get the flow of traffic reasonable. The MTA is losing customers on the express buses because the commute is out of control. We need to fix the problems - not charge your customers more money for what is already a stressfully slow ride to Manhattan.
2704 Galina Konoplich
2705 Anonymous
2706 Stanislav Zak
2707 Anthony R. Liverano
2708 Anthony R. Liverano
2709 Anonymous
2710 Anonymous
2711 Margaret O'Toole
2712 Anonymous
2713 Anonymous
2714 Kathy Meaghan
2715 Michele Susalis
2716 Michele Susalis
2717 AnonymousHow can the MTA seriously consider raising the express bus fare when, best case scenario, over an hour has been added to the Staten sland/Manhattan commute every day?? If anything we should be getting reduced fares because of the unacceptable traffic nightmare we are faced with each morning and each evening. If the fare for the "express" bus is to be raised, I think I should get "express" service into Manhattan each morning, and back to Staten Island each evening. Let someone figure out how to handle THAT!!
2718 Lisa Koerber
2719 Anonymous
2720 Julio FernandezCongressman Fossella, Thank you for your efforts on our behalf.
2721 AnonymousHow many more increases can we possibly get? How are we different from others. this is absurd!!!
2722 AnonymousIt's extremely unreasonable to having another fare hike coming. In the past few years, it was going up by 33%, and 25% already. That's no way near the average inflation. Make changes to the MTA board!!!!
2723 Joyce Nicholson
2724 Tricia SawchukI'd like to know if the MTA has any moral fortitude.. Why is it that Staten Islanders bare the brunt of every fiscal problem known to man in this city..? "NO HIKE"...Not now and not later...we pay more then everyone else already.
2725 Tricia SawchukI'd like to know if the MTA has any moral fortitude.. Why is it that Staten Islanders bare the brunt of every fiscal problem known to man in this city..? "NO HIKE"...Not now and not later...we pay more then everyone else already.
2726 Roman Kruglov
2727 AnonymousThis is an outrage for SI. Whereas the other boroughs have a direct train ride to the city, SI riders are forced to use the express bus. Our other option is the train/ferry/train. Please reconsider your express bus increase.
2728 Anonymous
2729 ms. parker
2730 ms. parker
2731 Anonymous
2732 AnonymousIts bad enough that I already pay $10 a day for HORRIBLE, UNRELIABLE service, so a fare increase is jsut out of the question!
2733 Anonymous
2734 AnonymousUsually when you pay more for something you are supposed to get a better product!
2735 Stephanie GuarneriWe sit in 2 hours or more a night of TRAFFIC. It is a terrible commute and no one does anything to make it better for us. We have no other means to get in and out of the city and its come to the point of being out of control now. People need to start moving off of Staten Island since we are treated like second class citizens by the MTA and Congressmen.
2736 Anonymous
2737 Stephanie MaranoI will not agree to a high hike, unless we have later buses from Midtown to SI.
2738 Karen McCarthy
2739 Robert KennedyThis fare increase is very unfair. Express bus riders already pay a significant amount more than other modes of transportation. From where I live in the Bronx, the express bus is the only reasonable way I have of traveling to work on a daily basis.
2740 AnonymousWhy is it that as service gets more horrific, the price increases? Dealing with high commute costs, the terrible service and traffic has really hit home with just about every Staten Islander. It's bad enough there always seems to be a surplus in budget but somehow, someway, we are always getting tapped out between commuter increases, etc. and not to mention the mta tax on some utility bills as well. The entire MTA needs a major overhaul. This needs to stop.
2741 Sharon Inglima
2742 Jeanna StanzialeI spend to much money as it is to travel back and forth to my job in the city and to increase the fare would be insane. I cant afford it, theres no need for it. Just dont do it, it will save the MTA a lot of grief
2743 Denise PazWe already pay too much for what is always a longer commute than those not on Staten Island. Leave our fare as is.
2744 Anonymous
2745 Mikhail Degtjarev
2746 Michele DeFazio
2747 Anonymous
2748 Anonymous
2749 Samuel Mosby
2750 Heather Foley

 

Signatures | Total: 2,876