Tuesday, February 08, 2005
San Jose Buss, trolley use hits lowest level since 88
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/10844679.htm Several fare increases and nearly a 20 percent cutback in service over the past three years are blamed for the dramatic 33 percent decline in the average number of weekday riders since 2001. The 16-year low comes as more bad news for a system that already ranks among the most expensive, most heavily subsidized and least efficient in the nation.
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NOT an inherent trait of transit. In Santa Clara County, county roads are also death-gripped by the same dysfunctional County bureaucracy.
But of course I will give the devil his due. Cox is right that bus and LRT service in such cases should be "put out to tender." With a normal cost structure and the huge amounts of funding still coming in despite the ongoing high-tech recession since 9/11, Santa Clara County could afford to double the level of service.
Anon E. Mouse
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But of course I will give the devil his due. Cox is right that bus and LRT service in such cases should be "put out to tender." With a normal cost structure and the huge amounts of funding still coming in despite the ongoing high-tech recession since 9/11, Santa Clara County could afford to double the level of service.
Anon E. Mouse
