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Metrolink may cut some trains amid budget shortfall
Los Angeles Times
Struggling to avoid or minimize a second fare increase in a matter of months, Southern California’s commuter rail service is weighing what officials have long considered an unpleasant alternative: cutting dozens of trains used by thousands of riders each month... Despite the recent fare hike and ongoing budget cuts, the agency faces a multimillion-dollar income shortfall this fiscal year.
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AC Transit to scale back service in March
Contra Costa Times
The AC Transit board voted unanimously Wednesday to pare bus service by 8.4 percent in March … The district got an 11th-hour reprieve from deeper cuts hours before Wednesday's 7-0 board vote, when the Metropolitan Transportation Commission approved a funding shift enabling AC Transit to scale back service cuts from 15 percent to 8.4 percent. The regional commission permitted AC Transit to reallocate $35 million of federal funds from its planned bus rapid transit project in Oakland, Berkeley and San Leandro, and use it to operate regular bus service.
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Transit ridership continues to drop; higher fares, fewer routes, blamed
North County Times
Ridership on North County Transit District buses and trains continued to drop this fall, following a yearlong trend blamed by the district on its own fare increases and service cuts and the region's sour economy. Total ridership is up since 2003. District boardings climbed from 11.9 million in fiscal year 2003-04 to 12.6 million in fiscal year 2008-09, according to the district report.
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Airport group bashes plan
Glendale News Press
Local officials are lining up against a Metrolink proposal to cut service to Bob Hope Airport by 28%, calling the plan a shortsighted way to deal with anemic ridership figures. Burbank Mayor Gary Bric maintained that proposed cuts to Metrolink’s Ventura County line would damage the Union Station-Downtown Burbank-Bob Hope Airport rail connection. The Burbank station alone connects the Metrolink system with 43,000 employees in the downtown and media districts, he said.
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Lodi's transit fares will rise to maintain weekend service
Lodi News-Sentinel
Transit fares will be hiked in order to continue providing Sunday service and expand Saturday service. To deal with a $373,000 shortfall in state funding, the council made cuts to the transit system in October that included decreasing the hours of service Saturday and eliminating all service Sunday.
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