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Posted by Gold_12th on Wed Sep 5 20:06:04 2012 Every New Yorker knows the feeling. You wait for a bus in the beating sun and when it finally arrives, you have to pack in like a sardine.But B1 riders say that the MTA is adding insult to injury when passengers sneak on the packed-to-the-gills bus via the back door, unbeknownst to drivers without paying a fare because there is simply no room to board the bus properly. "I think it’s disgusting," said Samantha August, who lives in Gravesend but works in Bay Ridge. "I understand why people may sneak on, but if the MTA put more buses on the B1 line, it would definitely decrease the amount of people who did that. I've waited 40 minutes so far for the bus." Kathy D. of Bensonhurst said, "That would really annoy me to see someone sneak on for free for a bus I paid for." "I haven't noticed that happen, but if I saw it, I would definitely be mad," commented Sergei Deko of Bath Beach. During a recent round-table meeting hosted by Assemblymember Nicole Malliotakis, MTA board member Allen Cappelli said that the agency loses $10 million a year in fare evasion. In these cases, he contended that the drivers were "errant." Malliotakis had noted at the time that there has been talk of injecting $5 to $6 million into the MTA budget to put undercover officers on buses to stop fare beaters on problematic routes. Alan Saly, a spokesperson for the Transport Workers Union – who joined Assemblymember Bill Colton’s petition to bring back the B64 to Coney Island – said that the union does not condone the practice. "We believe everybody should pay their fare; there is no doubt about that," he told this paper, noting that in many cases, drivers are unaware of those sneaking in. "Drivers are supposed to obviously tell them to pay their fare." ---http://www.homereporternews.com/news/general/b-straphangers-say-some-are-not-getting-a-fare-ride/article_7ef35e82-f772-11e1-9a2d-001a4bcf887a.html |
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