Letter: Raising senior fare for bus harmful

I recently came home on the bus. At the bus stop was a posting saying that there are proposed increases in bus fares.

Most of the increases seemed fair until I got to the proposed increase for senior riders’ annual pass. They want to increase it from $35 per year to $120 — A 340 percent increase. As if it isn’t hard enough for seniors to live in Hawaii, now TheBus wants to increase the senior fares so high that many seniors won’t be able to afford a pass.

Don’t let the fare increases go up as proposed. If they do, your auntie may have to walk home from the grocery store with her heavy bags of groceries because she can no longer afford her bus pass.

Russell Gust

Waikiki

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