I wish I did not have to write this letter, but the Metropolitan Transportation Authority monopoly failed the public trust once again.
On May 14, at Beach 105th Street and Rockaway Beach Boulevard at 10:29 p.m., I waited with two other commuters for the Q53 bus going toward Woodside. The 10:30 p.m. bus did not show and the 10:50 p.m. bus, No. 4025, showed up at 11:01 p.m.
An exhausted female commuter said she was waiting for the bus since 10 p.m., and 61 minutes later the Q53 finally arrived.
Another female commuter said three Q53 buses were observed going toward Beach 116th Street during her wait. Where did they go? I bet you someone was getting over on the public.
Will the MTA do nothing to correct the problem? No one will be punished or fired. The public benefit corporation only benefits the upper-level bureaucrats who push paper and lie to the public.
The MTA is full of baloney. The governor and mayor need to clean house and change the MTA or dissolve it.
The MTA must improve bus and train service immediately or people will abandon the public transit system for their cars, not bikes.
But the MTA monopoly and the government will ignore the public suffering and steal from the public in other ways. They will hike tolls, give out more red light and speeding camera tickets, increase vehicle registration, etc.
We are over-regulated and overtaxed for mediocre, unreliable, late, overcrowded and dangerous bus and train service.
Can someone make a difference here?
I would like to support public transit, but the MTA makes it harder every day for poor people to get around.
Are you tired of longer travel times and dangerous, overcrowded and unreliable trains and buses? Let us get organized.
Join Queens Public Transit Committee, to help fight for better transportation.
Philip McManus
Rockaway Park
