Votes - USA - Livonia votes out of SMART, jeopardizing regional bus system
LIVONIA,Mich,USA -The Detroit News, by Joel Kurth -Nov 8, 2005: -- One of Metro Detroit's biggest suburbs wants to dump the region's beleaguered bus system, leaving a gaping hole in an already patchwork service... Livonia residents voted Tuesday to give the city council approval to withdraw the city's $2.4 million tax subsidy of the Suburban Mobility Authority for Regional Transportation (SMART), prompting worry among bus advocates that other suburbs may follow suit. The council is expected to make the move official by year's end... With 100,000 residents, Livonia would be the largest city to end the service, which serves 50 of 103 communities in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. Farmington Hills officials are debating whether to bow out of the system in 2006...
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