Brooklyn Borough President Calls For Free Subway Transfers In Brownsville
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is fighting to get free subway transfers in one community.
Adams is demanding the Metropolitan Transit Authority immediately allow free transfers between the L and No. 3 subway lines in Brownsville.
Adams and the transit advocate group, the Riders Alliance, launched a petition drive called MaketheConnection on Thursday. They handed out flyers on the corner of of Junius Street and Livonia Avenue urging commuters to sign.
"We're fighting for a free transfer, you should not have to pay twice," Adams said.
He calls the lack of a free transfer between the stations, which are just a block apart, economic bigotry.
"One of the most economically strong communities -- the Upper East Side of Manhattan -- has a free transfer, yet in Brownsville, where the economic challenges exist, do not have a free transfer on this line," Adams said.
Commuters are on board with the idea.
"I don't have that type of money and I'm still in school, so that money can serve for school," one commuter said. "For me to be having to pay four times for trains I think it's unfair."
The MTA hopes to make the change within a couple of years, 1010 WINS' Glenn Schuck reported.
