Hoboken 4th Ward Councilman Ruben Ramos is calling for permanent $5 ferry rides in the Mile Square City to provide affordable and reliable transportation across the Hudson River.
By John Heinis/Hudson County View
“My plan is simple. We will work with ferry operators to keep fares at $5 for Hoboken commuters, without the chaos of cross-honoring,” Ramos said in a statement.
“By increasing ridership, we can run more frequent service, improve efficiency, and lower costs for everyone. The PATH is not getting any better, and the Port Authority is not fixing it anytime soon, so we need to take local action to make commuting better and more affordable.”
The mayoral hopeful noted that when the Hoboken PATH service shut down, New York Waterway offered $5 discounted ferry fares to ensure residents could still get to work.
The response was immediate, and ridership surged, proving that cost is a major barrier to ferry use, Ramos added.
Under his proposal, the city would partner with ferry operators such as NY Waterway to provide financial support that offsets costs for Hoboken residents.
By encouraging more commuters to take the ferry, operators could expand schedules and make service more dependable year-round.
“Five Dollar Ferries will change the game for Hoboken,” Ramos concluded.
“We are talking about making a great commuting option accessible to more people, improving quality of life, and reducing strain on the PATH, all while supporting a cleaner, faster way to get to New York.”
Ruben is trying to catch the Zohran tax the rich free stuff for everyone else magic. He’ll probably offer to give out free puppies to Hoboken families next.
This guy is so clueless.
“I’m gonna take your tax dollars and give them to a private company, but I won’t raise taxes to do it.”
He is literally inept across the board
So his plan is to get all the taxpayers of Hoboken to subsidize the few who use the ferry?
just like Tea Tax Tiffany who blew 60 mil on buying a sunken dock to protect the views of millionaires like Eli Manning
One visit to russocorruption.com and you’ll see where Russo benefited from a alleged $5 a tow parking authority scandal
Ruben like so many of our “electeds,” has not spent much time working for organizations required to have revenues exceed expenses. Let’s fix the broken/expensive transportation models the government already operates before meddling with private models that work pretty well.
Oh here we go with the White CEO talking points.
Tiffany Fisher LEFT the business world a decade ago!
Would you fly on a plane with a pilot who hasn’t flown a plane in over a decade?
Someone’s campaign is getting awfully worried about Fisher’s run. Which mayoral contender has the recent business acumen you desire? The bankrupt physical therapist, the public school teacher or the stay at home mom?
Who is the “Stay at Home Mom”?
Talk about being a raging elitist…
Why was she never able to work in that field since and why the multimillion dollar payout?
Mayor’s Hire the best, not act as Chief Cook and bottle washer.
I would fly on a plane with a CFO who hasn’t flown in 10 years only if They were seated next to me in the passenger cabin. LOL
You are a politically irrelevant minority in Hudson County and you will remain so until the heat death of the universe. Your opinions are unpopular. Your politicians are unpopular. Meanwhile, the people will continue electing people who want the government to provide useful and necessary services to people of all socioeconomic backgrounds.
Huff your copium and keep crying about it in these comments sections.
Thats why President Kamala won the popular vote, and had the highest margin of victory in NJ and Hoboken in decades.
President Trump was reelected because candidate Harris failed to enunciate any real change from the Neo-Liberal Orthodoxy demonstrated by the failed Biden Administration.
Not that Biden didn’t try, but the chickenhearted Democrats nationwide who wouldn’t adopt needed policies to fight inequality undermined him.
Worse, Biden became the foremost apologist for the funding of the ongoing warcrimes in Gaza.
Had Kamala Harris promised to tax the wealthy to keep Social Security solvent and pledged to on her 1st day in office there would be no more bombs shipped to Israel she would have beaten Trump had she said nothing else.
Kamala Harris lost because she was terrible choice by the leaders of the Democratic Party.to be their standard bearer With one a billon and a half dollars in campaign funding and most of media promoting her the she lost in a historic humiliating defete dragging them all down with her.
The Democratic Party’s hubris defeated them and they may never recover.
You’re still politically irrelevant in Hudson County and Hoboken. So you lost by 30 points instead of 40? Lol who cares?
Boo hoo
It was $3 ferries when the PATH shut down
A 60% REDUCTION IN THE TICKET PRICE? AND HE WANTS HOBOKEN TAXPAYERS TO PAY FOR THIS? IS HE SMOKING CRACK? IF 2000 RIDERS PER DAY X $6 DOLLAR DISCOUNT EQUATES TO 12,000 PER DAY X 200 BUSINESS DAYS. 2,400,000 DOLLARS THAT TAXPAYERS WOULD PAY. THIS GUY HAS ZERO COMMON SENSE AND EVEN LESS FINANCIAL SENSE.
A sign of low intelligence is often using “ALL CAPS”.
Here at our institution, we don’t accept students who do such poor online grammar.
Same goes for our current teachers. The former are sent packing.
Such an elitist and racist passively racist view that she went with the smartest people for her slate, ALL who are white….
Liz the Cannabis hating retiree looking to run a mom and pop business out of business
Carter Craft the environmentalist who defends e-bike delivery drivers and calls and Instagram objector a “Racist” for advocating for bans on sidewalk riding and bike safety rules.
Diane Imus who lives in a massive home on Castle Point but rents out a rent controlled unit like a hotel bringing tourists and strangers into a residential neighborhood.
Dave Mello, a sad sack of nothing, Dawn Zimmer didn’t even tell him she wasn’t running again, and found out in the press.
Soundly defeated when the only slate that would have him was a double dipping HCDO hack named Stick Romano. Mello lost so bad he came in 12th out of 14.
Tiffany’s Elitist all white 1%’ers mocking school teacher and a stay at home mom is exactly the reason their snobby slate should be defeated.
Dr Michael Russo has been living in Church Towers subsidized housing from birth and yet despite publicly declaring himself a financial expert he recently declared bankruptcy.
His father the former disgraced mayor of Hoboken Tony Russo plead guilty to multiple felonies sentenced to prison and fined over a hundred thousand dollars.
Somehow those fines have allegedly gone unpaid while his expensive shore was exempt.
You will not find that his campaign literature.
He didn’t fail the bar…
Yo, Michelle, they calling!