Controversy * USA - Over public transportation cuts
New Port Richey,FL,USA -My Fox Tampa Bay, by Peter Linton-Smith -11 Aug 2009: -- Viola Young sat in the hot sun Tuesday morning waiting for a bus. “I don’t drive, I never have,” said Young... She is among the nearly 130-thousand people a year who rely on Pasco County Public Transit... “Right now I don’t have a car so it’s pretty important,” said Gerard Denato, another bus rider... But Pasco County may not be able to afford to keep the buses rolling six days a week. By next month the county must cut nearly $35-million from its budget and transit services, along with every other department, will be required to cut 15 percent. The possible bus cuts include the elimination of route 33 which serves the city of Zephyrhills... The route averaged just 53 passengers a day compared with more than 1-thousand daily passengers along the busiest route... Commissiners will make a final decision on the proposed cuts later this month...
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