LOSSES * USA - Muir Beach bus service on financial edge
An inefficient bus program serving Muir Beach is on the rocks because it doesn't make fiscal sense
San Rafael,CA,USA -The Marin IJ, by Nels Johnson -20 April 2009: -- The "dial-a-ride" service launched a year ago as a demonstration project "is the least productive service that Marin Transit operates and carries an average of 1.5 passengers per hour" - below the district standard of at least two passengers per hour for such service, reported Amy Van Doren, Marin County Transit District planning manager... The dial-a-ride program in its first 11 months served 762 patrons at minimal fares that required aÊ $29.41-per-passenger subsidy, officials reported... Although transit district directors set a public hearing on the fate of the program for 10 a.m. May 18, it was clear Monday that the bus service is all but doomed in an era of funding cutbacks... Officials said the neighborhood service would cost $78,750 next fiscal year, when state budget cuts will slash county transit funding by $1 million or more... An overall short-range transit plan endorsed Monday indicates the Muir Beach ride program "is expected to be discontinued" next fiscal year, when most other programs will be maintained, along with increases in paratransit service... Labels: losses
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