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October 05, 2009

Clark County Getting Less Transit, Starting In January

Earlier this year, in response to greatly-reduced funding, C-Tran – the public transit system serving Clark County, meaning greater Vancouver WA, adjusted service downward quite a bit.

Now, I know you Vancouverites were thinking that would be it for a while, but wait, there's less:

The proposal, which consists of a 3–6% net reduction in C-TRAN’s annual service hours, is necessary in the wake of the prolonged economic recession and a projected $4 million budgetary shortfall caused by declining sales tax revenues which account for approximately 60% of C-TRAN’s revenue. The projected shortfall is in addition to savings recently generated by C-TRAN’s receipt of federal economic stimulus funds used to off-set preventative maintenance costs. If adopted, the proposed service adjustments are expected to close approximately $480,000 to $1 million of this budget gap, with the remaining to be bridged through non-service related spending reductions and use of reserve funds.

A PDF containing details of the reduction is available at C-Tran via this page: http://c-tran.com/news/detail/id/14. Click on the words Service Adjustment Plan in the middle.

At least VanWA's still getting Sunday service. They don't even get Saturday service in Salem anymore.

We're going the wrong way with transit, dammit.

Posted by The Chinuk at October 5, 2009 09:02 AM