HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Honolulu City Council is struggling to determine what’s fair for fares in the transit system.

Actual riders pay for only a small portion of the cost and a proposal to raise fares stalled again in the Council’s Budget Committee Tuesday.

The Council has been considering fare hikes in Bill 54 for two months.

It would mean the current one-way fare would go up 25 cents for bus riders who still pay cash and stay at $3 for people with Holo cards. (The city wants to encourage Holo card usage because of the cost of collecting and processing cash.)

Monthly passes would rise from $80 to $90 and an annual pass would rise to $990 from $880.

City Transportation Services director Roger Morton told the committee the increases would bring in an estimated $4 million more

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