Government agencies have this down to a science. When the need to cut costs rises to critical mass, they don’t cut underutilized services and increase efficiencies, instead, they cut popular services so that the public outcry will lead to a restoration of all services.
So instead of dropping little used bus routes with few riders, the Port Authority proposed dropping a popular bus route to the Pittsburgh Airport.
This time the ploy backfired. If the Port Authority eliminates the popular 28X Airport Flyer buses as it has proposed, a private company said it's willing to pick up much of the slack. Now the Port Authority is saying that the elimination of the popular bus route may not happen! Read more…
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