Good work, readers. Your letters to Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo has helped spur her to action. After receiving several dozen letters from outraged Sheepshead Bites readers, Scavo sent a hard copy letter direct to the president of MTA New York City Transit, Howard H. Roberts Jr., demanding that they take a look into alternatives to closing down B express service for two years.
Scavo says it wasn’t just the letters, but also witnessing the current commuter clutter on the platform.
“Tuesday morning I was personally there at 8 a.m.,” she said. “The entire B platform was three deep. And I want to know why that many people need to be inconvenienced for a construction project.”
Scavo’s letter goes on to say that other options can be found, including having the train switch from local to express and express to local at various locations, thus easing the burden.
Although Scavo couldn’t provide us with a copy of that letter, she says it went out Tuesday morning. She’ll notify us when she hears back.
If you sent an e-mail to Scavo, don’t pat yourself on the back just yet. This still has a long way to go, and if B express service is to be saved we must continue to put pressure on our leaders. Scavo told me previously that, in addition to the closures, transit officials told her that only three – THREE – cars will be added to the tracks, which means we’ll be facing severe congestion issues. And you can bet we’re facing another fare hike next year, so in addition to crappier service we’ll be paying even higher prices.
This is a crisis caused by awful management and a disregard for commuters, but only you have the power to help stop it. Keep contacting your leaders. We’ve already heard from one local official that they received a call from the MTA complaining about our efforts at Sheepshead Bites – so they are taking notice. Keep on writing letters, and be sure to enlist your friends and families who use the B train as well.
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“Scaro Takes Action”…. Great!
I would only expect the Communit Board 15 Chairperson will share her hard letter to the President of the MTA with the people the Communit Board represents.
The Community Board 15 website is not active. Please suggest to the Chairperson the best way to quickly reach the people would be posting the letter on “Sheepshead Bites”.
The members of the Community Board will be able read the replys and get a full understanding of our concerns…
[...] told you this morning that Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo wrote the MTA, and now we’ve found out that State Senator Marty Golden has followed suit. Joan Byrnes, [...]
As Chairperson of Community Board 15, I am not at liberty to distribute any correspondence sent by this office without the consent of the Board and Borough Hall. Senator Golden does not have the same chain of command. I am elected by the Board but, I can not act without approval of the Board on these issues. As for our website, the Community Board website is not maintained but the Board or our staff. The website is controlled by DOITT (Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications) for the City of New York. Anything on the website must go through them. To add or change anything takes forever and must go through the City’s red tape.
Google “New York City Community Board Websites” or “Brooklyn Community Board Websites”…