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Obama Stimulus Leaves Bus Riders By the Side of The Road
The
House version of President Obama's stimulus plan has left bus riders
with nothing to look forward to but stiff fare hikes and painful
service cuts. Bus systems got zero in immediate operating support from
the bill that passed yesterday -- stunning neglect compared to the $150
billion in educational "operating assistance" to local schools and
universities and $127 billion in emergency health care "operating
assistance" to state Medicaid and private insurance programs. A
relatively puny request for $2 billion in transit operating support was
shot down before even reaching committee.
January 29, 2009
Of Buses and Women
Today on the Streetsblog Network we're hearing from Santa Rosa CityBus,
the only blog on the network (so far) that is written by employees of a
municipal transit agency. Their latest post laments the lack of
positive press for the bus in general:
January 8, 2009
“Stuck in That Congestion? I Got One Suggestion: Use a Bike Rack”
Watch this instructional video from the Transit Authority of River City (that's Louisville, Kentucky), and trust me, you won't be able to dislodge the chorus from your head for days. I never thought of bus-mounted bike racks as the stuff of infectious music videos, but I was wrong -- egregiously wrong.
December 9, 2008
Times Calls for Metro Service Cuts
Last Year, Bus Rider's Fought for Late Night Service
December 5, 2008
Metro Schedules Community Meetings on Wilshire BRT
We Won't Have to Worry About Local Buses on Rapid Routes after Wilshire Get's BRT
November 7, 2008