Fares on the bus go up and up | The Columbus Dispatch

Bus riders will need more change for the coin box in January if a plan to increase fares as much as 26 percent is approved by the Central Ohio Transit Authority.

[George W Buschk]

Finally someone is smart enough to charge the people using the "service" a higher fee rather than making the rest of us subsidize a useless agency!

This person has my vote for school board! mayor! governer! Heck maybe even president!

[SterlingSilver]

Let's see, 6.5 cents per mile for up to five people in my Corolla, or $1.75 per person on the bus. Yeah, I'm sticking with my car. But thanks anyway.

[Big Johnson]

Does this mean the COTA levy will be reduced or ended?

[Raise it some more]

Raise it to $7.00 and do away with the sales tax. Let those who use it pay for it.

I'm tired of paying my expenses and the expenses two others.

[WhatNoBackUp]

I just had to replace the tires on my minivan - it cost a FORTUNE. Licensing each car is approaching $50/yr now. I'm almost to the point where I can only afford one car for my family...

[COTA_Stinks]

By stinks, I mean literally. When is COTA going to provide free showers to the stinkos that get on the bus?

COTA is a joke, and so is Lhota. I've never seen so much menaingless blah blah out of someone, and still get hailed as some kind of hero.

The most recent bus ride I had, the driver was rude, the bus late, and once again, I had to intereact with another mental patient.

Why can't all this money we put into this sham be spent on buying cars for people who are stuck on the bus? Consider this stimulus money for the greater good of society.

[SterlingSilver]

COTA_Stinks wrote:

By stinks, I mean literally. When is COTA going to provide free showers to the stinkos that get on the bus?
COTA is a joke, and so is Lhota. I've never seen so much menaingless blah blah out of someone, and still get hailed as some kind of hero.
The most recent bus ride I had, the driver was rude, the bus late, and once again, I had to intereact with another mental patient.
Why can't all this money we put into this sham be spent on buying cars for people who are stuck on the bus? Consider this stimulus money for the greater good of society.

It will all get better when the streetcars are built. ROTFLMAO