In an effort to balance a budget facing an estimated $57 million deficit, the AC Transit Board of Directors last night approved an 8.4 percent cut in bus services throughout Alameda and Contra Costa counties.
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December 1, 2009 – 9:09 pm
This fall, AC Transit officials announced a proposal to reduce bus service by 15 percent. A reshuffling of agency funds has brought the reduction down to 8 percent. At a Tuesday evening meeting, riders were invited to learn more about how service cuts will affect them.
O.N. Blogwalk: College Ave, Friday dusk.
September 19, 2009 – 8:47 pm
Every week this fall, Oakland North is taking a blogwalk. Usually on weekends, but maybe not. Sometimes we’ll have cameras, audiorecorders, or both; sometimes we’ll just tell you about what we heard and saw. If you want to send us someplace in particular, let us know.
It’s a balmy early Friday evening in North Oakland. [...]
Rider to AC Transit: “It’s a matter of equity”
September 14, 2009 – 9:08 pm
“I bet you don’t even take the bus,” one West Oakland resident chided AC Transit planner Sean Diest Lorgion. “I take the bus seven days a week.”
She was one of scores of Oakland residents crowding a room in the transit building in downtown Oakland Saturday, who had come to hear AC Transit’s presentation on a [...]
Transit’s Measure VV passes with wide margin
November 4, 2008 – 10:14 pm
By SAMSON REINY
Nov. 5 — Measure VV, which will raise about $14 million dollars a year for AC Transit, passed with nearly 72 percent of the vote.