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Buses World News
Buses World News
In brief: Worldwide montly news & informations about Buses, Busmakers, Passengers' and the Transport Industry
20.8.09
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,” saidGerard 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...
Cutbacks * New Zealand - To city bus services proposed
Southland,New Zealand -The Southland Times, by EVAN HARDING-13 February 2009: --Some Invercargill residents who rely on buses for transport may soon be out of luck... A proposal to cut 210km off the city's daily passenger bus routes was tabled at anInvercargill City Councilcommittee meeting this week...Senior traffic management officer Eddie Cooksaidthe proposed changes, if implemented, meant some residents would no longer have buses travelling down their streets. As a result, passengers may be lost under the proposed routes, but others may be gained when the buses started going down their streets...Mr Cooksaidthe aim was for the buses to travel the least distance and pick up the maximum number of passengers... Nothing concrete had been decided and discussions with the bus operator would take place, he said...More than 238,000 passengers were carried on the city's bus service in the six months to December 33,000 more than in the corresponding six-month period the previous year...
