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PACE official says Senate Bill 2111 stabilizes transit funding and prevents service cuts in region
Summary
Mayor Tom Marcucci, PACE representative, told the DuPage County Board that passage of Senate Bill 2111 prevents planned service cuts and fare increases, boosts operating and ADA budgets, and enables a phased capital program including electric and hybrid buses and a system redesign to expand service into underserved DuPage neighborhoods.
Mayor Tom Marcucci, speaking to the DuPage County Board during its Dec. 9 meeting, said the recent passage of Senate Bill 2111 changes the transit funding outlook for the six-county suburban network and allows PACE to avoid the service cuts and fare increases that had been planned earlier this year. Marcucci said the bill had passed the legislature and had not been signed by the governor as of the morning of the meeting, but that agency leaders are preparing as if it will be signed.
Marcucci described several budget figures and programmatic changes: he said suburban bus operating funds were expected to be about $372,000,000, the ADA budget about $361,000,000 (an increase he…
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