Bus Experiment * USA - Works out to $400 a ride so far
It costs $1 to ride the Piedmont Area Regional Transit (PART) bus, but each passenger trip so far has been worth about $400
Martinsville,VA,USA -The Martinsville Bulletin, by MICKEY POWELL -May 21, 2009: ... Henry County and Martinsville each are paying $3,000 for RADAR, a nonprofit agency based in Roanoke, to run the bus service as an experiment from January through June 30. The Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) contributed another $114,000, for a total cost of $120,000... Henry County Planning Director, Lee Clark, said Tuesday that so far the bus has made about 300 passenger trips. Divide the $120,000 cost of the experiment by 300 passenger trips and the result is a price tag of $400 per trip so far... If the number of riders does not increase, Clark said, “we’re going to have to seriously reconsider” funding the system, and Monday agreed... Based on his research, Clark said he does not know of any public transport service that is self-sufficient. Such services, he said, seem to be “a benefit provided to citizens” that have to be subsidized... The low ridership has prompted local officials to alter the bus routes and waive the $1 fare during the first week of June...Labels: bus experiment
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