Roadshow * USA - Smiles, frowns on first day of VTA bus changes
San Jose,CA,USA- The San Jose Mercury News, by Gary Richards -15 Jan 2008: -- It was the first morning of Santa Clara County's most extensive transit overhaul in three decades, and VTA General Manager Michael Burns was already thinking about next year... Monday's bus service changes, affecting all of the Valley Transportation Authority's bus routes, had gone off - mostly - without a hitch. It was good news for an agency that has struggled until recently to lure back the riders who abandoned mass transit after the dot-com collapse and several years of service cuts and fare increases... In fact, Burns even hazarded what could be considered a benchmark for the changes, which have boosted service on the 15 busiest routes. If the plan adds 7,000 more riders a day within a year, he said, call it a big, big success... The changes are the latest growth strategy for the VTA, which saw its high of 153,000 rider boardings each weekday in 2001 falling to less than 98,000 four years later. The number has risen in recent months, climbing to about 119,000... (Photo by Len Vaughn-Lahman - San Jose, Calif - VTA bus Rider Elena Scull trundles off her bus with daughter...)Labels: public transport systems
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