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OCTA reveals March 2010 doomsday scenarios
MetroRiderLA
The Orange County Transportation Authority, like most of L.A. County’s suburban neighbors, must look at another round of service cuts as tax revenues have fallen off sharply during the recession. The worst is to come in March 2010. OCTA has revealed is various scenarios to reduce more than 300,000 service hours from the system. The most drastic involves killing off a large swath of routes, while others involve adding more short lines and reducing span of service and/or frequencies...Most of the cuts affect routes in northernmost and southern Orange County.
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Elk Grove to consider doubling monthly e-tran pass to $200
The Sacramento Bee
Faced with continued budget woes, Elk Grove leaders tonight will discuss a dramatic possibility: doubling the e-tran commuter bus pass to $200 or more per month. The proposal comes just months after the city raised fares, and weeks after Elk Grove cut bus routes to try to balance a budget left dry by state cuts and a decline in local sales tax revenue. Despite those changes, e-tran officials say their bus service is still in the red. Meanwhile, fewer bus runs have led to more standing-room-only crowds on some routes.
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Higher bus costs for some proposed
The Press-Enterprise
Seniors and disabled passengers reliant on Riverside County transit for rides to appointments will face more stringent rules and higher costs starting next year if a bus agency plan is approved Thursday. Facing spiraling cost increases to Dial-A-Ride, a door-to-door service for seniors and those eligible for federal disability benefits, Riverside Transit Agency officials are proposing changes to the system. The age requirement for seniors would be raised from 60 to 65, and riders would pay a fare based on the distance of their trip, up to $9 each way.
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America's Cleanest Commutes
Forbes.com
The San Francisco metro area, with its vaunted mass-transit system and relative dearth of solo drivers, tops our list of America's cleanest commutes. The country's three largest cities all rank in the top 10. "I'm not surprised by that at all," says Sean Pool, an energy and environmental policy researcher for the Center for American Progress, a Washington, D.C. think tank. "Higher density makes public transit more effective. You get more bang for your buck." To determine our list, we used data released Monday by the Census Bureau as part of its annual American Community Survey. Last year, only 5.3% of America's 140 million laborers used mass transit to get to work. So in formulating our list, we considered all areas with at least 275,000 inhabitants and a mass transit rate better than the national average.
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Report: 10 Percent Transit Growth Would Help Meet Climate Target
Streetsblog.org
A 10 percent annual increase in U.S. transit ridership would reduce CO2 emissions by 180 million tons each year, taking the nation halfway to the target set by the House climate change bill within three years, according to a report released today by Environment America and the Coalition for Smarter Growth. The report, timed to coincide with the growing debate over transit's role in the final version of the congressional climate bill, includes a wealth of useful and surprising data about how last year's much-discussed rise in transit use translates into reduced driving and environmental benefits.
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Study: Driving down, mass-transit use growing
Orlando Sentinel
Hounded by a recession and high gas prices, motorists drove less last year and caught more rides on mass-transit systems, a new national transportation survey has found. Among the states that saw the biggest drops in miles traveled by car or truck were Georgia, California, Michigan and Connecticut. Those with the biggest mass transit increases included Louisiana, Maryland, Delaware and Utah.
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