The Long Beach Transit has been dealing with service reductions, due to budget reductions.
Every day hundreds of students rely on the Transit system as their main form of transportation to and from school or work.
Approximately three percent of Transit service hours will consist of longer wait times between buses on certain routes and fewer buses to accommodate Long Beach students, and residents.
CSULB students who have been using the U-Pass program, are now waiting longer for busses to pass by, some students are arriving late to class and getting home later.
Jose Chavez, sociology major, said, “I have been noticing that the buses have been getting here a little later, but since I don’t have a car, I just have to wait on the bus, to take me home (Gardena).”
Route 181-182 and Passport B/ 4th Street will now have a 30-minute wait, prior to 15 minutes before.
In a press release Larry Jackson, President and CEO of Long Beach Transit, said, “What we are seeing here first-hand is the impact of not only the economy but the state’s decision to implement major cuts in transit funding as it struggles to keep its own budget balanced.”
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