Today at the regular meeting of the Green Bay Transit Commission, staff was directed to begin the public comment process for a fare adjustment that will be effective in February 2009.
A public hearing will be held at 6:00PM on 10 December 2008 at the Green Bay Metro Transit Center located at 901 University Avenue, Green Bay, WI.
Fare_Notice_2009.pdf
If you are unable to attend the public hearing and wish to share your comments with us, please do so by responding to this blog or by completing the attached comment form and returning it to Green Bay Metro, 901 University Avenue, Green Bay, WI 54302.
Comment_Form.pdf
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Increasing the adult pass by over 30% is absurd. You are greatly minimizing the advantage of a month pass over the daily fee charge.
Folks are having a difficult time paying for food and housing and you want to increase their cost to get to work. Wages are not increasing by 30%.
You need to increase ridership. To incease ridership you need to provide and affordalble and reliable service. This increase will make it less afordable and currently the qualifty of your service is lacking. Buses need to run ON TIME. The No 11 bus is rarely on time for it inbound route in the afternoon. It can be as much as 30 minutes late. That is not reliable and now you want to charge more!!!!
I suggest that you rethink this increase.
I think that if some of the fare pass gose so should all the fare pass not just the who can a ford them
Still no word on servise cuts???
Ithink that with the pass goes up for the Elderly/disabled it should og for all
Why people in their right mind would increase monthly passes to the elderly and disabled?These folks are limited in their ability to pay increased fares. Did the powers that be discuss this with ASPIRO? I bet not!!!
I don't understand why the increase was not a percentage ACROSS THE BOARD of 30%. Even the Packers do this. Why doesn't this "illustrious board" do this,too. It is the fair thing to do,in my mind.
I take the bus and I ues a ELDERLY DISABLED PASS I CAN A FORIT PUT WHAT HAPPENENS THE ONE WHO CAN NOT A FOR IT I SHOULD BEE FREE
I THINK that the all the pass should be free for the ones who ues the like i do
I struggle to afford the $26 for my adult pass. So much so that for the summer months I walk home from work.
I could not believe my eyes when I saw the fare increase posted on the bus. A $9 jump in one year is absurd and flat out unfair and unreasonable. Just as ridership is increasing they go and pull this stunt. In fact,when I was buying my DEC pass I thought to myself,I wonder how much longer before rates go up. I had figured a $3-5 increase was likely but $9?
On top of it...the late issue is as bad as I have ever seen it and this is during good weather. The #12 in particular is always 4-8 minutes late at least.
I also got on 9th street last week and he was running only bout 2 minutes behind when we heard over his radio that a bus was leaving. A passenger said "I need that bus" and the driver said..."YOU need to tell me what bus you need...It's not my job to find out your transfers". In riding these busses for over 20 years I have never had a driver say this. I always see the drivers say "I'm 5 minutes down,what buses do we need?"
So,rude/lazy drivers and buses grossly off schedule and they want to raise the pass by $9?
I'll walk 3 miles home in sub zero weather before I pay that price.
If that adult pass goes up one cent beyond $29 I'm done with GB Metro.
Imagine if Shopko were to charge more for an item to the shoppers that use their loyalty cards. It sounds absurd, but that is what might happen here. The most loyal riders (those with passes) would be charged between 9 and 10 dollars more each month, while those who ride only occasionally won't see any increase. Such an increase is hard on many wallets, especially with the economy as it is. I do see why an increase may be needed (saving Libal-DePere (I hope!), keeping the buses in tip-top shape(thanks to the maintenance crew), etc.). But the burden needs to be more spread out among the riders.
To make the pass worthwhile in this case, an adult would have to ride six more times, while someone who is disabled or elderly would need 13 more trips (one extra trip a day for over two weeks). These numbers are only for the increase (on top of the current rates).
Please take this into consideration.
Thank you.
I agree with the other comments about the outrageous increase in bus passes. What is an even larger increase is the college passes completely being eliminated. Are you serious that the increase is now going to be from $23.50 to $35.00? UWGB students can ride for free and NWTC gets a $11.50 increase? I certainly can't afford it and am very worried. Why do you think some of us take the bus....because we can't afford anything else and it is our only option. People may be more understanding if the bus system was actually working effectively and efficiently, which is after all, your supposed mission statement. Green Bay Metro has been a consistent disappointment for months straight. There is always an excuse for it, but it never used to be this way. The buses hardly EVER make transfers, I am always late for work unless I leave an entire cycle early every day and I spend more time standing outside waiting for the bus or sitting in the terminal than I do riding it. And this was before winter weather started. You can't depend on it for anything and the majority of drivers are about as friendly as my worst enemy. Taking all of this, coupled with the elimination of entire routes and cutbacks on other ones, why in the world should we pay more? I would expect if we pay more, there would be an increase in service hours and quality, not the opposite. Maybe you need to really think about your mission statement in its entirety, because it is not contributing to efficient and cost effective service and it is most definitely not improving my quality of life.
If we had it our way we'd make it free for everyone. Some of these comments are silly and almost absurd. Needs to make their own as well if they couldn't afford the bills we'd all be out of luck. So please remember that the world does not revolve around you. I'm a student of ITT Tech in Green Bay the metro does not get out there to drop me off, and it does not count me as worthy of a student pass. That is just the way it is so thank you Green Bay Metro for what you do. You can't be expected to please everyone all the time or solve all of our problems.
As far as students riding free the university paid metro about $30,000 over a year in order for students to ride free which actually comes out of students tuition fees and increases in student parking fees.
As for the buses not being on time, there was construction occurring on almost every street the bus leaves to get everyplace else during the fall and summer.
Personally I think it is an unreasonable expectation to expect buses to be ontime 100%, and the only way to do that is to either increase the bus lag at the station or decrease the wait between busses at stops, however financing is an issue for metro. I wouldn't mind paying $2.00 per ride and $70 for a pass if we had excellent service, but unfortunately we are not in New York and a lot of funds for the bus come from tax money in addition to fares, and I think we would probably need about a few million more people to move here to accomplish that.
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