By Ariel Hart
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Georgia Politics
August 12, 2010
Without new funding, the Xpress commuter bus program will go broke and shut down in the next fiscal year, said Georgia Regional Transportation Authority Executive Director Jannine Miller, the latest metro transit agency facing significant cutbacks or total collapse.
In the meantime, the regional commuter bus service is cutting its budget, raising all pass prices and hiking the fare for the longest routes.
GRTA Xpress's current budget crisis was built into its DNA, since it was established with short-term funds that were bound to run out. State officials hoped that the Legislature might eventually fill the shortfall. But the poor economy has produced an unexpected gap of two to four years until a 1 percent sales tax for transportation goes before the region's voters in 2012 and, they hope, starts delivering money. Even then, Miller said, there is no guarantee the region will include Xpress operations in the projects to be funded by the tax.
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