Title: PENNSYLVANIA : TRANSPORTATION FOR THE COMMON GOOD
Abstract: This article presents a survey of signature transit operations in Pennsylvania, starting with a history of growth of transit in the state. A key development was linking passage of the state lottery in 1973 to funding transportation for the elderly in a program called Shared-Ride. It subsidizes fixed-route and demand-responsive transit systems for users older than 65. Another large effort is the Medical Assistance Transportation Program, which pays local transit agencies to carry people to health care appointments. Statewide support for transit comes from $260 million in general funds for urban systems and $2.6 million in rural ones, plus $70 million in gas tax revenues for investments statewide. Among the highlighted systems are two large agencies that contract out the actual operation of vehicles; a rural provider; regional agencies, including one that consolidated two separate operators and overnight repainted the two fleets and reconfigured routes to make them into one, more visible operation; and a paratransit service.
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-09-01
Language: en
Type: article
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