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Updated: 10:12 PM Mar 27, 2009
Transit Authority Hopes City Will Help with Funding
Topeka Transit is forced to make many cuts, but is hoping the Topeka City Council will be able to help the transit authority with additional funding.
Posted: 9:59 PM Mar 27, 2009 |
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TOPEKA, Kan. - Topeka Transit hopes some extra funding from the City will help prevent making more cuts to the operation.
Board members met Friday at an emergency work session to discuss what can be done to help prevent them from putting Phase Two into action - this means buses would come every hour rather than half hour.
Phase One begins April 1, which means Topeka Transit will no longer provide bus service after 6:30 p.m. on weekdays or at all on Sundays.
Transit officials say things like bus repair, replacement needs and the sluggish economy add up to costs they cannot keep up with.
Jack Alexander, Transit Authority board member, said, "We don't want to have to do what we've already made the decision to do, and that's start scaling back. We're now wanting to educate the council in hopes that they have ideas that they could join us in keeping the system running."
Board members will meet with Topeka city council members to discuss additional funding.
Latest Comments
So they have a public meeting AFTER the buses stop running. Is this planned so the people who depend on the buses as a sole means of transport have no say in the matter? Hey TTA, don't forget to vote yourselves a big bonus for driving the system into the ground. I dare a City Council member to use the buses for their sole means of transport for a week and say it's a good system aimed at supplying a public that needs it. Any takers?
As a transit user i am disgusted by the deceitful practices the Topeka transit is getting away with! didnt they JUST receive a 1.5 illion stimulus package less than 2 months ago? and they keep raising the fees? and there are tax dollars going to support this as well?how is this happening? it seems to me that the transit system needs to be audited to find out where the money is REALLY going! we DONT NEED new buses, the ones they just bought a few years ago dont even work half the time so why buy new money pits to deal with?lawrences transit goes further out, has longer running hours, less wait btween buses, at a MUCH cheaper rate and just as much of an area to cover!topeka transit doesnt NEED any more money at all! they want us to contuinue to foot a bigger and bigger bill but give NOTHING at ALL in return to its patrons!! unless you count rude and verbally abusive drivers as a plus!! note to the obama.....AUDIT TOPEKA TRANSIT!!! they need it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
