[The Pokey/Schleppie Awards] identifies the most unreliable routes and suggests bus priority infrastructure implementations, operations modernization, and policy and planning changes to create a better bus network for riders.
“I'm excited to see [the Low Income Fare] program increase access, change lives, and save riders and the Commonwealth money.”
“The lack of sustainable, long-term funding hurts the ability of public transit to operate, plan, or build efficiently. I hope that the recently announced task force will give us some of those options to fully fund public transit.”
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Yet another daily struggle straphangers encounter is that of finding information about service changes. As transit systems age and regular (and irregular) repairs must be conducted, service will occasionally be rerouted to accommodate those repairs. Most transit agencies choose to do these repairs on the weekends when service disruptions will affect as few riders as possible.
