| # | Name | Comments |
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| 201 | Peter Maas | Budget deficits are real. The more expensive you make it to ride Septa, however, the fewer people will ride, because they will find other means. That means that your deficit will be even greater. Eventually, you will have to make it so expensive to ride SEPTA that noone will be able to afford it, and SEPTA will go out of existence. Then we will have the most unimaginable traffic situation and pollution in the country.
The people most hurt by the creeping increases are those who are least able to afford them.
Think about the results of your actions. Do not raise fares, and do not eliminate transfers. |
| 202 | Doug O'Malley | SAVE OUR TRANSFERS AND SAVE OUR KIDS! |
| 203 | Patrice Wood | |
| 204 | Anonymous | |
| 205 | Karen Allen | |
| 206 | Terri Pilla | |
| 207 | Nate Green | |
| 208 | Eric Palmer | Eliminating transfers is counter productive, and makes our transit system look ridiculous. Do you know that in some cities around North America transfers are FREE? Septa needs to get it's collective head out of the sand. |
| 209 | Felicia Williams | keeping the transfer is the very least thing done for the many loyal Septa riders |
| 210 | Anonymous | why stop the transfers, it's not like you still not getting money out of people. No you just want to milk the consumer for all they have. |
| 211 | Anonymous | the elimination of transfers will pose an extreme hardship to many who can bearly afford the fare as it is. |
| 212 | Lyna White | |
| 213 | Barbara Carey | |
| 214 | Susan Dannenberg | |
| 215 | Davia Rivka | I try very hard to use public transportation whenever possible. First SEPTA reduced the frequency of the R8, then raised the prices, now wants to eliminate transfers. I have the luxury of falling back on the use of my car. Public accessible transportation matters. Let's make it a priority! |
| 216 | Liz Tymkiw | |
| 217 | Anonymous | |
| 218 | Nancy Morrow | |
| 219 | Lisa Mengucci | |
| 220 | Anonymous | Please consider the consequences this would have on ridership. |
| 221 | Anonymous | I want to know why Philadelphians have to pay an arm and a leg for a incomplete subway/elevate/subway surface trolley system? I want to know why Philadelphia is THE most expensive transportation system in the country even though the system is not on the level with NYC , Chicago, DC---considering that it is in the upper echelons of world cities? I want to know WHY there are only two Philadelphians on the Septa Board and thus OUR(Philadelphians) voices are not being heard? I want to know why this city is not moving forward on the transportation front and grasping progressive technologies and policies like other cities around the world? I am angry at SEPTA for thinking that Philadelphians are stupid and ignorant. There are people in the city of brotherly love who really love OUR city. I don't like driving and I believe in mass transportation, especially subways/trolleys/Els/regional rail/--by the way when is Septa going to improve and upgrade those services? When is there going to be justice for people who have no other means of getting around---LOL especially when the system goes on strike? Septa better do something soon because just like the organization and its workers love going on strike---Philadelphia citizens are going to go on strike too and boycott your transit system--which will make you not get any type of revenue or ridership. I am angry and fed up at companies, organizations and intistitutions like SEPTA who take so much from the average citizen AND never give back to those same citizens who give them love. |
| 222 | Deborah Zubow | You must be out of your minds! Why would would make a policy to take us backwards, away from making public transportation more affordable and more accessible, especially for low-income folks, when our region and our environment needs public transit to grow? |
| 223 | Sonia Bennett | Please keep transfers for the Love of God! |
| 224 | Calvin Hoops | |
| 225 | Anonymous | |
| 226 | David Boorman | Many of the people who currently use transfers are occasional riders, like myself. Passes do not make fiscal sense to me, given that I only travel to town a couple times a week. If you eliminate transfers, my response will either be to bypass the first bus (which I can walk in 15 minutes, which is also the frequency of the bus on my route) or, more frequently, just to take my car instead.
Your decision will *reduce* ridership by discouraging use by occasional riders like myself, when your goal should be trying to increase ridership. Increasing ridership will do far more to increase overall revenue than this type of short-sighted, self-defeating "fix" ever could. |
| 227 | Anonymous | Ridiculous...rubbish service & extortionate fares. What SEPTA needs is competition & riders to boycott --- whatever the financial cost for at least one day --- then SEPTA will know the financial impact it puts on its riders, nearly all of whom can't afford any other transport...because if they could, they would. |
| 228 | Lisa Newman | |
| 229 | Wanda | Why do we have to pay another fare. It is not fair to us. Can't you come up with something better than that. This is the reason you will loose alot of riders including me. I'd rather pay for parking or car pool. Not alot of people get paid good to afford another base fare. Thanks alot for nothing. |
| 230 | charles thornton | |
| 231 | Anonymous | |
| 232 | Mona Lee Piedra | I don't think Septa needs to raise fares and I also don't think they need to get rid of transfers.What about the elders,the young that has to go to school and what about the people that can't afford to even ride the buses on the daily basis,I know I don't live there any more but I still come to visit three or four times out the year and I also ride the public transportation.I just think it is unfair to the people that cant really afford these prices and people that is on low income. |
| 233 | Anonymous | I am a SEPTA rider, but I only take the bus on the weekends now. My job as a live-in health aid doesn't allow me to use the bus during the week, but even just on the weekends I really don't want to spend all of my hard earned money just to get home. I have to take 2 buses to get home and before this issue, I would use a Day Pass. I think SEPTA shouldn't do away with them either. Saturdays are when I go home, so I go shopping and whatever I am able to get done on a Saturday. Paying two dollars each bus I take isn't fair. Trust me and everyone who says it, but people will be buying cars and not taking SEPTA at all. I am looking for one now. |
| 234 | Emmanuel LaDon Corleone | with septa taking away the transfers and raising fares will cause a lot of people to miss out on a lot of the things that they need to do and they will not be able to afford it. Like me for example when I come home to see my family I take the bus where I have to go because Im still in school n can not afford a car so the bus is my only way of getting around. With nomore transfers I would have to walk because I have to take more then one bus to get to where I have to go. If that dont give u a reason then think about ur mom or daughter traveling on the bus and need a transfer and could not afford it and then they made her walk the rest of the way that they had to go, How would you like that? |
| 235 | Brian Fink | |
| 236 | Danielle D. Taylor | As an occasional rider the elimination of the transfer and subsequent increase in fare for me means I might as well drive than take public transportation. |
| 237 | Natalie Minkovsky | |
| 238 | Renee Larson | |
| 239 | Anonymous | Please save the transfers as I would have to pay much more to commute to college everyday. |
| 240 | sakoyia | I really believe that Septa should keep the transfers because it is a very big help. Some people really do not have enough money to dig any deeper in their pockets to pay that extra $2.00 if they catch more than one bus especially a lot of people with more than one child. They have a lot more important things to spend their money on, like food, clothing, bills, their health and their education and in most cases their children. |
| 241 | Anonymous | What about the people that or on a budget and can't afford extra carfare or student and riders that utelize the services 3-4 times an week thats not fair |
| 242 | Joseph Freedman | I would like to see SEPTA sell a "stored value" card, like New York's Metrocard, which can accomodate both discounted rides & transfers. In the meantime, SEPTA should keep its system of transfers and lower their price to 25 or 50 cents. SEPTA seems to assume its primary customers are commuters who must take it back & forth to work 10 times a week. However, there are lots of riders (esp. in Center City) with other, more discreitionary patterns, and SEPTA's pricing should encourage - rather than discourage - people to hop on the bus. Also, the elimination of transfers will work a real economic hardship for some, esp. people traveling bus & El to & from the Northeast. |
| 243 | Bridget Chadwick | I'm a transit/pedestrian/bicycle advocate. I'm writing a book about how easy and fun it can be to get to work, museums, galleries, parks, nature centers, shops etc. in Philadelphia and its suburbs using multimodal forms of transportation. I hope to enlighten and encourage many readers to try transit, particularly multimodal combinations.
However, your decision to eliminate transfers will put a serious dent in my argument about economic advantages over driving if riders have to pay full fare for each portion of a multi transit trip.
If you still really need to raise more money, raise the parking fees at train stations. The people who drive to train stations are the customers who would be most willing to pay a hike! (Like Washington DC drivers who don't mind paying tolls for HOV lanes). And for the few who don't want to pay the higher fee they have other options of getting to train stations: by bus, bike, by foot or even carpool.
Please note at stations like Jenkintown there are people who work at businesses in the neighborhood and park in your lots because your parking fee is so low!!!! |
| 244 | Alexia Johnson | |
| 245 | Veronica Polo | Please don't eliminate transfers. You are going to further discourage people from using public transit for both reasons of increased cost and complexity. The less flexibility and ease of use you offer to riders, the less people will bother with public transit. To be blunt, you are shooting yourself in the foot.
Additionally, you are causing hardships to those most in need of transfers, the economically disadvantaged who are likely to live further away from jobs and need to more than one transit connection to get to their place of work.
Getting rid of transfers makes NO SENSE. Please reconsider, for both the sake of SEPTA’s future economic viability, and for the sake of riders. |
| 246 | Nan E. Fagan | Please do not eliminate transfers on SEPTA. Not everybody can afford to purchase a weekly Transpass. And besides, why should we have to pay another fare when we want to transfer from one SEPTA route to another. |
| 247 | francine piper | SEPTA needs to consider the hardship that would be placed on the high school children and the poor who relie on the transportation service. |
| 248 | Ruthy Paul | We the undersigned rider of SEPTA demand that the SEPTA Board reverse its decision to eliminate transfers on August 1, 2007. |
| 249 | Liz Tymkiw | |
| 250 | Anonymous | |