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MCTS reports vendor shortfalls and provides route-restoration cost breakdowns amid budget cuts
Summary
Milwaukee County Transit System officials updated the Committee on Finance on Transdev contract performance, ridership metrics and the estimated cost to restore proposed route eliminations, including route‑level restore costs and systemwide estimates.
Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS) officials told the County Committee on Finance that they are continuing to work with vendor Transdev on performance and that staff provided the committee with route-level cost estimates for restoring proposed service reductions.
Steve Fuentes, president and CEO of MCTS, said the Transdev contract set a productivity target of 1.7 passengers per revenue hour; Transdev has been averaging "more than 1.3 passengers per revenue hour," he said. Fuentes said the operator's productivity has "made a slight…
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