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Transit rider Debra Reed says rather than pay an extra $180 a year to purchase a 30-day MetroCard each month, she may give up on mass transit altogether.

"I'm really considering buying a car, it may be cheaper, come out cheaper buying a car," Reed said.

Subway riders who spoke with NY1 at Brooklyn's Atlantic Terminal Thursday were frustrated about yet another MTA fare increase.

"They just want to take more money from people who are trying to survive," said one transit rider.

"That money is going in somebody's pockets, it ain't going in ours, they are taking it from us," said another.

"We should be able to you know get the same fare we have been getting which is already really high, it's just going to discourage people from riding the train," said a third.

Some say they're frustrated because they don't believe fare increases lead to trains and buses operating any better.

"I don't see anything ever improving and fares just continuously go up so I don't understand it," said one transit rider.

It was pretty hard to find anybody with sympathy for the MTA, but some subway riders who spoke with NY1 were a little more understanding.

"You have got to look at from an organizational perspective, I mean, if they need to do it that's fine," said one straphanger.

"You always mind paying extra but if you have to, as long as it is being used to maintain the subway system and pay the employees that keep the system running, it's kind of one of those unnecessary, or necessary evils I should say," said another.

While straphangers may have to just suck it up, it doesn't mean they have to like it.

"We can protest all day and all night, we can have candlelight vigils for the people that are getting their pockets murdered, but what are you going to do, seriously," said one transit rider.