NT Transit Fare Hike
Hearing Set for Secaucus
Mar 6th, 2010 | By Greg Hazley | Category: Commuting, New Jersey Transit, On tap, Secaucus
Secaucus residents who commute to New York (or anywhere via NJ Transit) will have a chance to vent their feelings and get more information from the transit agency later this month at a public hearing in town on proposed fare hikes and service cuts.
N.J. Transit, which has proposed fee hikes and service cuts to close a $300M budget gap, will host a public hearing and “information session” in Secaucus on Fri., March 23 at the Lautenberg Rail Station.
The agency said it plans to raise fares by 25 percent across the board, which would ostensibly raise a $2.55 bus fare to New York from Secaucus from $2.55 to $3.20. The $3.25 one-way train ticket from the Junction would climb to about $4.06, depending on how they round off.
The Secaucus session is one of 11 around the state later this month.
The transit agency says that single zone tickets at $1.70 are still lower than similar fares in New York and Philadelphia, where fares top $2. It also says fares after the increase will be 3% lower than 1991, based on inflation-adjusted dollars.
The hikes would take effect May 1 are expected to bring in $140M in additional revenue.
Fifty bus routes are targeted for service cuts widening arrival times from five to 20 minutes, NJ Transit said.
The Secaucus event runs from 5:30-8:30 p.m.
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In NY fares top $2 dollars.Yes they do but for $2.55 which is the price I can go from Port Authority to Conney Island for that.Now it will cost $3.20 to go from Secaucus to Port Authority which is just 5 miles.So NJ Transit do not compare yourself to other cites.Because as usual we will be the highest paying customers for something else now.
If you don’t like the price, don’t use the service.
How else should they bridge the 300m dollar gap? tax EVERYONE? even people who don’t use it? NO WAY.
Stop using the service isn’t a solution. Well, I guess it is, but it’s one that would drive that deficit even higher and surely put the burden on ALL taxpayers in the state.
Commuters in our area use NJ Transit more than any other around the state and are not the reason the system is in the red. Hiking our fares doesn’t make sense when we’re subsidizing the Warren County bus with 2 people on it every day.
Trim the unprofitable routes, squeeze the pension system and phase out the gas-guzzling, pollution spewing buses from the fleet.