Dear Editor:
I am a daily bus rider of the Academy bus going to Hoboken at the bus stop across from the Oritani Bank near to the corner of Bergenline Avenue (ice cream store) and Fairview Avenue, 90th Street borderline to the town of Fairview. Since last year I and other bus riders have written dozens of letters to the manager, Tim Grossi of the DPW in North Bergen requesting for a most needed bus shelter to be built to protect us from bad weather and still they haven’t built one.
It seems all our letters have gone in the garbage, and they simply have turned their heads and simply looked the other way. It’s totally unfair that we are treated with the I don’t care attitude of the DPW. We are taxpayers, and we pay our bus fare each day. It’s a disgrace! As you know winter is around the corner once again. We shouldn’t be subjected to another winter’s nightmare with nothing to protect us. They have the materials and the manpower, there’s no excuse. As you know just recently they widened and repaired the streets and even remade the sidewalks adding to it fancy blocks and even small trees in the same area where we need a bus shelter; I am sure costing millions of dollars to the town and they can’t make a bus shelter after so many requests have been sent?
Believe me it was a nightmare last winter waiting for a bus at 6 a.m. with the freezing temperatures on windy days with absolutely nothing to protect you, sometimes waiting up to 40 minutes for a bus that had been delayed because of the bad weather.
Please I am asking for your help to have a bus shelter built at the above mentioned area as soon as possible. You will make a lot of bus riders very happy and grateful, especially me. Thank you.
Betty Monroe