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24.10.10

Cutting Buses * USA - SFUSD mulls ones

School buses will be cut by 57 percent during the next three years

San Francisco,CAL,USA -The San Francisco Examiner, by Andrea Koskey -October 15, 2010: ...   if a proposed cost-saving transportation policy is adopted by the San Francisco Unified School District...   The proposed changes include reducing service to roughly 900 children, reducing the district’s bus fleet to 25 and eliminating transportation for 950 students to after-school programs...   Buses would continue to provide service to students living in low test-score areas and bring them to language-immersion and K-8 schools. They would also still provide service to racially isolated schools to create diversity and bring students from high-density areas of The City to lower-density areas, district officials said...   Though cuts to specific bus routes and stops were not revealed Wednesday, Board of Education Commissioner Rachel Norton said she was not comfortable supporting a proposal that abandoned families who did not participate in the district’s after-school programs...  It costs the district roughly $100,000 to operate one bus, according to Assistant Superintendent Myong Leigh. The district spends roughly $6.3 million on general-education transportation. Changes would reflect the new student assignment system, adopted in March, and be phased in over the next three years...   (SF Examiner File Photo - Busing kids: The San Francisco Unified School District spends $6.3 million a year on transportation for general-education students)

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7.11.07

Cutting Plan * USA - Chicago's transit budget at a crossroads

Emergency funds are granted as state lawmakers debate a sales-tax increase

Chicago,Ill,USA -The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles,CAL), by P.J. Huffstutter-November 3, 2007: -- These are tough times for commuters who rely on the Chicago Transit Authority, the nation's second-largest public transportation system, which is used by about 1.6 million riders each day on bus and rail lines across the city and in 40 surrounding suburban areas... For months, state lawmakers have been locked in debate over how to find more than $226 million to balance the 2007 operating budget for the transit system, which runs buses, the elevated train line known as "the El" and other regional rail, bus and shuttle lines... Transit officials had warned that if lawmakers couldn't resolve the budget, they would have no choice but to cut services Sunday, which would have affected about 100,000 riders... The plan called for cutting at least a quarter of the bus routes -- some of them specifically devoted to the rush-hour commute in and out of downtown -- and raising fares by as much as $1 and laying off 800 transit workers... (Photo from www.luc.edu: Air pollution in Chicago)

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