Earlier this month, the Clayton County Commission voted to end C-tran, the county's bus service, this coming March. The bus service was run by MARTA and had about 2.1 million rides last year. The decision was met with much protest, as many Clayton Country residents use the service to commute to work each day. Riders are still hopeful that they can get the decision reversed before the March 31, 2010 end date.
The culprit was, as it always is, budget. An AJC study reveals that the county spends about $10 million per year to operate C-Tran, but only collects $2.5 million in revenue.
Clayton County will be conducting its own study to analyze the economic impact of shutting down the service. They are not anticipating finding results that will change the current decision, stating that the only game-changer at this point would be a source of non-county funding.
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people need to get to work, “oh” my bad it’s not about us as a people, it’s tyhe money. you all don’t care and you all are going to hell for thie!
I hear that a private company is going to take up the service. It is called Quick Transit http://www.quicktransit.net/routes_and_stops.html
What are your thought on this change?
My worry is that this company will sacrafice service over profit and raise the prices even higher. Just look at other transportation companies and they do it all the time. Airlines anybody?
its amazinq how clayton county “claims” that they cant afford this & that but yet they took away the buses & we STILL dont have anythinq ! they could barely afford school buses & i almost ended up havinq to walk to school (luckily i JUST made the list that states i live more than a mile away) ! theres STILL no sidewalks on the MAIN ROADS in which people walk DAILY ! you know what ?! i cant wait till May , b/c im SOOOOOOOOO ready to qraduate & qet tha heck outta here !