nothin Time For A Bus Boycott? | New Haven Independent

Time For A Bus Boycott?

After years of ignoring New Haven’s pleas for fixing its broken bus system, the state now plans to jack up fares. How should New Haven react?

Babz Rawls-Ivy invoked the 1955 protests in Montgomery, Alabama, that launched the modern civil-rights movement.

Boycott!” Rawls-Ivy, the managing editor of the Inner City News and a WNHH FM radio program host, said on the weekly news-in-review Friday Pundits” program.

Get the Beemers out. Ride with your friends to work. We need a modern-day boycott.”

Poor people are the ones who are going to suffer” from the proposed fare increase, noted fellow Pundits” panelist and fellow radio program host Joe Ugly.

The pundits spoke the morning after the state Department of Transportation held a public hearing in New Haven about its plan to raise one-way CT Transit bus fares from $1.50 to $1.75. That 17 percent increases compares to a 5 percent fare increase the department is proposing for Metro-North train rides. Click here to read a full account of the hearing and both sides of the issue.

And click on or download the above audio file to hear the full episode of WNHH radio’s Friday Pundits,” which also touched on the return of bar cars to Metro-North trains, the recent ruling in a state education-funding lawsuit, NLRB hearings on an effort to unionize graduate student teachers, and the tenth anniversary of the Hill branch library.

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