Public hearing tonight on RT changes

Even though the state budget is not yet complete, Regional Transit is planning to reduce its operations due to the probable inclusion in that budget of $1.3 billion in public transit cuts. In addition to internal cost-saving measures it looks like RT is set to make changes to 20 or more routes. Sac RT has released an announcement with a list of routes slated for trimming (PDF). RT Rider blog has more documents to peruse. RT Driver had some pretty tough words for the RT leadership when the announcement of Arnold’s cuts came out.

There is a public hearing about the proposed cuts tonight at 6 p.m. at the 29th and N RT office.

In honor of the 50E, my line of choice and one of the doomed routes, check out “Stockton Boulevard” by Stars & Garters on Chris Macias’ Sunday Single…

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Author: CoolDMZ

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3 thoughts on “Public hearing tonight on RT changes”

  1. Way to go Sacramento, brilliant. Now go listen to Jello Biafra’s “Die for Oil, Sucker.” over and over.

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  3. Then to top it off they lose their General Manager to Atlanta’s transit agency.

    At its Monday meeting, the RT board of directors approved service changes that account for $1.3 million of the district’s fiscal budget. It committed to service reductions, beginning Jan. 6, 2008, on 18 of 20 proposed routes. The $1.3 million reduction does not quite meet the $1.6 million budget gap RT said it is facing.

    So the new guy/gal has to trim an additional .3 million?

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