Bus Plan * USA - Advocates Push it
Hartford,CT,USA -The Hartford Courant, by GARY LIBOW -March 19, 2007: -- Mass transit advocates on Monday unveiled a five-year, $309 million plan for enhancing commuter bus service statewide that they say would boost the number of riders significantly... Transit for Connecticut -- a New Haven-based coalition of 20-plus business, social service, environmental and transportation organizations across Connecticut -- recommends the state expand express bus services to major employment centers, and increase operating hours and frequency of service on heavily traveled routes. It's also urging increased weekend and evening bus service, expanded Dial-A-Ride options, more commuter connections with rail stations, and increased interregional service to improve access to jobs... Curt Johnson, of Connecticut Fund for the Environment, said investing in clean diesel bus systems could reduce dangerous emissions 80 to 90 percent by 2010...
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