PUBLIC TRANSPORT SERVICES * USA - MTU buses cruise to 1 million served
La Crosse,WI,USA -La Crosse Tribune, by SAMANTHA MARCUS -2 Mar 2008 -- Beverly Koeller has never had a car or driver’s license. She started out riding the popular streetcars in La Crosse, but when a private bus service came to town that became her main mode of transportation to work each day... Though now 85 and retired, she still rides the bus — north to the Harry J. Olson Senior Center or south to Shopko and Bethany St. Joseph...Critics grumble that tax dollars have to fuel municipal bus service such as the MTU year after year... The Washington, D.C.,-based CATO Institute, a public policy research foundation, argues the average public transit vehicle operates at only 20 percent capacity... And the public transportation services do rely heavily on city, state and federal funding. It cost nearly $5 million in 2007 to operate buses in La Crosse, with the city contributing 10.2 percent, or $510,000... But 2007 ridership was the highest the MTU has seen in two decades: 1,043,403 passengers, or an average of 18 riders per bus hour...
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