[PRCo] Re: *-->__Service__Adjustments__<--*

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings to all

This is a statewide problem.  SEPTA has made
the same type of proposals.  Also Chicago and
NYC.  Some type of fare increase will be required as well
as state help.   Harold Geissenheimer

James B. Holland wrote:

>({[pat]}) budget proposal includes employee layoffs, a fare hike and no 
>rail or bus service after 9 p.m. or on Saturdays and Sundays.       
>This  *may*  put pressure on the  state legislature to come up with a 
>dedicated source of transit operating funds and pick a tax mechanism to 
>pay for it.        Projected transit deficit is $30 million.       A 
>fare hike would occur in February 2005; the service cuts in March 2005.
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>What's the scuttlebutt around town???????
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>http://www.portauthority.org/grow/pgPress.asp#hearing
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