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TRANSPORATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE
January 16 1991
Minutes
Present Sally Castleman Nick Santosuosso Pauline Burke Sara
Arnold Alison Green, Carol Sonduck
1 There was a brief dicussion regarding the transition to the new
contractor Passengers are adjusting There seemed to be consensus
that students were not especially aware that there were new buses or
that there was a new contractor
2 The committee discussed the presentation to the Board of
Selectmen scheduled for later that evening Pauline is still
compiling figures In Untoher there was a 3'.4 increase in passengers
per vehicle hour, a 20% decrease in total ridership and a 7% decrease
in farebos revenue Pass sales have brought in more money than last
year and overall, revenues are up for the first six months of the
fiscal year
It was decided that there wasn t enough information to make any
definitive statements about revenues or ridership and that the
committee needs more time to analyze the statistics It was decided
to make the following points at the Selectmen s meeting
li - It has been an interesting and challenging year
- We went out to bid 4 times--once for chair car service three
times for Lexpress
- We have worked with two contractors to provide Lexpress service
the second just started on January 1
- We increased fares in July
- We reduced to six routes in September
- We have new committee members
- Our focus has been to ensure smooth transitions to all of these
changes
We are just beginning to try and evaluate the implications of
the changes on ridership and revenue
- The current budget represents a 3% decrease from last year s
request