The Nassau County Legislature’s Deputy Presiding Officer Roger Corbin and Legislator Kevan Abrahams rode to work on Long Island Bus today as part of a challenge by the Tri-State Campaign and L.I. ACORN.  The groups asked county leaders to try Long Island Bus service at least once before adopting the county’s 2006 budget, expected Oct. 26^th.

   The groups hope to call attention to growing bus use and inadequate service in Nassau County, and want the county to increase its contribution to the Long Island Bus operating budget by $4.5 million, to $15 million, to allow for service increases.

  Bus riders noted that County Executive Suozzi recently declared an end to Nassau County’s fiscal crisis, but that bus service was still infrequent and crowded. County funding levels to Long Island Bus, though increased in recent years, are only about half of what they were in 1999.

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