Weekend bus customers face cut in service
Emerald photo
By RICHARD WAGONER
Ofttw Emerald
Reduced bus service and
employee layoffs announced by
the financially ailing Lane Tran
sit District last October will take
effect Sunday, according to
LTD marketing administrator Ed
Bergeron.
Extensive service cuts and
layoffs of 19 bus drivers and a
handful of staff employees were
necessary to combat a project
ed $340,000 budget deficit, says
Bergeron.
The remaining LTD staff also
will lose one work day each
month to help further trim costs
And Bergeron warns that an
other 6-to-8 percent service cut
will be required in September to
avoid continued deficit spend
ing.
"There hasn’t been any talk
as to where those cuts will be
made,” Bergeron says, "but we
can’t deficit spend.”
Service cuts that go into af
fect Sunday are:
• Reduced service frequency
from 30 minutes to 45 minutes
on Saturdays.
• Elimination of the 6:25 a m.
and 7:10 a m. Saturday depar
tures. First Saturday departures
now will leave the Eugene
Downtown Mall at 7:55 a m.
• Elimination of the 10:55 p.m.
and 11:40 p.m. weekday and
Saturday departures. The last
Eugene Mall departures will be
at 10:10 p.m.
• Reduced service frequency
on Sunday from 45 minutes to
90 minutes on routes Harlow 12,
Centennial 14, West 18th 33,
Campbell-Bethel 42, Four
Corners 45, Santa Clara 51 and
Oakway 61.
• Elimination of Sunday service
on route Park Avenue 50.
The service cuts mean Satur
day buses will stop at the
University every 45 minutes in
stead of every 15 minutes. The
last bus making the 10:10 p.m.
downtown connection will be
LCC via Harris at 9:59 p.m at the
13th and Kincaid bus stop
In addition to service cut
backs, LTD also is busy ready
ing 18 new buses to replace
several old models prone to
breakdowns. Although the dis
trict had planned to begin using
the buses in March, Bergeron
says LTD has put one or two
new buses in service because of
continued breakdowns of some
1947 models still being used.
“This shows just how close
we have come in getting the
new equipment," Bergeron
says. “The old buses just rolled
over and died and we can’t get
parts for them.”
About half of the new
$104,000 buses have been
equipped with wheelchair lifts
for handicapped persons, and
Bergeron says lifts will be in
stalled in the remaining buses
by March. Cost of the wheel
chair lifts is about $8,000
apiece, he says.
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Prisons chief
may satisfy
reduction order
SALEM (AP) — Oregon’s pris
ons chief said Wednesday he
thinks the state may meet a
judge’s Jan. 31 deadline for
lowering inmate population by
500, but he is pessimistic about
the order to remove another 250
inmates by March 31.
Robert Watson, Corrections
Division administrator, said pro
gress had seemed slow until
figures released this week
showed substantial im
provement.
“The 500 looks possible
now," Watson said. "I wouldn’t
bet much money on it, but
there’s a reasonable hope of
making the deadline. There are
so many variables in the picture,
it’s hard to make an absolute
statement.”
U S. District Judge James
Burns ruled last August that
Oregon’s male prisons were
unconstitutionally overcrowd
ed. He ordered a reduction in
prison population of 750 in
mates by March 31.
The state has appealed the
decision and requested the 9th
U S. Circuit Court of Appeals to
stay Burns’ order. Scott McAlis
ter of the attorney general's of
fice said he still thinks the state
will fall about 75 inmates short
of the Jan. 31 quota. The state’s
motion claims that rushing the
release of inmates is a danger to
public safety.
Watson said his new optimism
about reaching the 500 quota by
Jan. 31 ‘‘is consistent with the
request for a stay. Meeting the
January deadline is no guaran
tee we will be able to sustain"
the reduced population level.
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