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The COTA fare increase was announced back on November 17th, but it’s probably worth a reminder that the fare increases will officially take effect tomorrow, January 1st, 2010. One-way local fares will jump a quarter from $1.50 to $1.75 and local monthly passes will jump $10 from $45 to $55 per month.
Additionally, COTA will be running their #21 Night Owl route tonight to service anyone staying out late for New Years Eve. More information on both the Night Owl and the new fares can be found at www.cota.com.
I don’t think we need a petition to fight this increase. :)
I wish COTA would add a few more routes and later times across the board. I’d love to use it for evening out bar hopping…..maybe someday.
cc Says: I wish COTA would add later times across the board.
You mean like this? It’s not quite 3am, but it’s a pretty good step in the right direction.
Thanks Walker. I missed that piece of info. Don’t tell COTA, but I would be willing to pay them $2.
I wonder how much routes will change if we get this railroad from cincy to cleveland? back in the day the station was supposed to be a multimodal terminal, but now it seems the station will be across the street and I am not sure how a bus terminal will fit in there. Maybe there will just be a new High Street stop?
o’course we don’t even have the railroad yet
If our Downtown 3C stop is at Nationwide & High, there’s already quite a few lines that run right by it on High Street. I can’t imagine there would need to be too much change.
Not to mention that the North Terminal at Spring & Wall (behind Barrio) is a very short walk (two blocks?) with even more bus lines and express service.
Actually, I think if anything needed a petition it was this. For bus-once-in-a-while folks like my self it doesn’t impact us much. What’s a quarter in one direction or another?
Many people who use COTA don’t have the luxury of not worrying over a quarter and this will impact them the most. Sadly, these are also the people least likely to have a voice and be able to rally masses of people behind a petition or some other such action that might serve to keep rates affordable for them. For some the bus is a necessity and not an option or convenience.
COTA hikes impact those people most. I suspect that parking meter rates probably do not affect the day-in-day-out working poor at all, but will freely accept correction on that. Not that the rates hikes weren’t handled poorly and exorbitant. They were.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not necessarily against a 25 cent bus fare increase, but I do think it is wise and generous of The Haves to consider challenging developments impacting The Have Nots, so to speak- that is, those who might not have the means or the voice to advocate for themselves.
So start one up.