Cuts Hurt! Proposed cuts in transit service, fare increase hurt Milwaukee County’s communities of color, poor, disabled, and transit dependent County Executive Scott Walker asked the Milwaukee County Transit System to prepare a 2008 Department Budget that cut the County’s support for the bus system by $1 million. As a result, MCTS was forced to […]
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The Milwaukee Transit Riders Union is currently in the process of preparing a series of reports to show the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors (who control the bus system) the effects of cuts in transit service and how that service should instead be expanded. We want to show the County Board that every cut in […]
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From today’s Journal-Sentinel
Plan ends routes, raises fares By LARRY SANDLER lsandler@journalsentinel.com Posted: July 22, 2007 Milwaukee County would raise bus fares from $1.75 to $2, drop 13 bus routes and shorten 13 others, under the Milwaukee County Transit System’s 2008 budget request. Also, fares would rise from $3.25 to $4 on the Transit Plus vans that serve […]
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