Fare payment machines at a Jamaica stop for the Q44 Select Bus have had no power for the past two months, frustrating straphangers who have since had to pay for their ride at the next stop, commuters said.
The machines at the Archer Avenue/153rd Street stop, in front of the Queens County Family Court, went offline on June 19, according to the MTA.
Straphangers using Select Bus Service lines have to insert their MetroCards into machines, which then issue their receipts to allow them to board at any door in order to avoid long lines at the front of the bus.
But passengers who get on the bus at the courthouse, have to get off at the next stop on Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard and pay for their ride there, which can take a couple of minutes depending on the number of passengers, straphangers said.
It was not clear when the machines will be fixed.
10 comments:
Not to worry. Cuomo is chucking another $10 mil into the black hole that is Jamaica.
Nice way to trap people who can pay into just hopping on the bus without getting a slip so that they can get a ticket from the mta police later along the route
Not to worry. Cuomo is chucking another $10 mil into the black hole that is Jamaica.
So much for SRS speeding up bus service.
They took away a car lane for this?
Jamaica is a shithole in practically every respect. Expect the worse in ghetto land.
I was on Sutphin Blvd by the Jamaica LIRR station last Tuesday. THAT AREA IS DISGUSTING!!! Filthy streets. Homeless drunk and drug addicts wandering around begging for money. And the air smelled of urine and shit, granted it was 95 degrees. Stay away from Jamaica at all costs! $10billion couldn't save it.
Think about how much energy they are saving.
They told us it would be "green"...
They need RFID because most immigrants won't pay
Sbs isn't worth it in queens....too many bottlenecks......and no one pays the fare late at night.
SBS is absolutely worth it to speed up the trip down Main St. Say what you want about Jamaica, but the MTA is at fault here for not having this problem fixed.
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