You’d think a governor might not choose the day after a poll showed even fellow Democrats aren’t enthusiastic about his stewardship for his transportation department to announce train and bus fare hikes.
But this is Gov. Dannel “Polls Come and Go” Malloy we’re talking about, so here you go, commuters.
Sen. Toni Boucher, R-Wilton, ranking member of the legislature’s Transportation Committee, is already fuming…
“While I commend the Department of Transportation for not cutting services for those who desperately need them, I am concerned that a fare hike of more than 15% over three years is being instituted during a time of such financial distress. The increase of more than 5% during each of the next three years may seem better than the potential 16% in the first year that was proposed, but this fare hike was not suggested during the normal budget process and was only later threatened as a response to a (state union) concession package that was in jeopardy. Once the concession package was accepted this increase should have been taken off the table. After all, these are the same commuters that just received the largest tax increase in Connecticut history.”
“Fare hikes prove Malloy doesn’t want to be Mr. Popular” , Well he’s proven his point already. It’s time he stops spending and taxing (and faring) and we will promise not to make him Mr. Popular, if that’s what he wants!