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...been shut down for more than three weeks because of insufficient funding. Some 30,000 riders have been affected, and the school system has signed a contract with the Yellow Cab Co. to provide transportation until the end of the school year. The only proposed solution to the shutdown: nearly halving the 43 routes to 22 and operating only from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., weekdays, a 65% cutback in daily service...
...Chicago, the nation's second largest transit system (1 million subway, el and bus passengers a day) is going flat broke while the state legislature bickers over funding. Businesses and commuters are already reserving hotel rooms, forming car pools and making other contingency plans for a shutdown that could come as early as this week...
Until the shutdown, the 201 buses of the Birmingham-Jefferson County Transit Authority served the city and seven municipalities. The buses were also the vehicle of desegregation for 1,300 of some 5,000 schoolchildren who take them every day. Last October the transit authority tried to close the yearly $1 million deficit by cutting back weekday service and eliminating Sunday service. In addition, it raised the fare from 35? to 80? in just one year. Then it turned to the Alabama legislature, but the lawmakers were not quick enough in finding new solutions. With funds dwindling, the transit authority...
Birmingham, which has worked hard to change its image as a onetime citadel of Southern segregation, does not like the publicity. Notes Mayor Richard Arrington: "A story indicating a shutdown of buses in an area of over 700,000 people cannot be viewed in any vein except a negative one." Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar seems to be taking note: last week he urged the city council to hike bus fares from...
College officials will meet today to set final details of the shutdown. Officials next week will announce reimbursement procedures for subscribers...