RTA cuts and cutbacks

Bret Callentine · Post by **Bret Callentine** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:14 pm

http://www.riderta.com/nu_newsroom_rele ... ingid=1203

Looks like the big change right now is that the circulator will only run every hour, so you better time it right or it could be a long wait in the winter.

Note to business owners on the route: you might want to get some benches ready now. perhaps a magazine rack.

possible elimination of the 86 and circulator are threatened for next year if WE FAIL TO DO THEIR JOB FOR THEM and obtain more funding.

Danielle Masters · Post by **Danielle Masters** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 3:19 pm

Well I am glad our circulator was saved (for now) but the lengthy wait is going to be difficult for the elderly, the disabled and the people with no vehicles. In this day and age of high gas prices it would be nice to see a very used item to not be cut.

Phil Florian · Post by **Phil Florian** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:19 pm

So why can't our own city sponsor/run its own circulator service? Couldn't we, the City, obtain this funding to transport our citizens to destinations within the city, including bus stops going out to parts unknown? A one hour wait is a bit better than not at all but it isn't very timely. You could walk to one end of the city and back in an hour, legs willin', and still have time to stop for coffee.

Ryan Salo · Post by **Ryan Salo** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:44 pm

We could run it on the weekends for the bar crawlers

It could pass by the new large parking garage once the theater is torn down.

Jim DeVito · Post by **Jim DeVito** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:50 pm

Ryan, Perhaps you are on to something. We could obtain funding from ODOT (or whoever gives money for this type of thing.) and supplement the short cumming's of that money with revenue from weekend bar crawl fares. They would of course be higher.