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Camera records action
As plan to stop bus
Crimes is activated
"AC Transit will launch a new fare AC General Manager Alan Bingham, "Beginning July 14 Alameda-Contra preferred to the death or, as recently
program around the middle of next who was in the office yesterday to discuss Costa transit system will remove tempta- happened, the serious wounding of a
month which will take all cash out of the new plan, admitted that it comes tion for hoodlums to ~old up buses. Day driver.
the hands of the system's bus drivers and complete with a multitude of headaches. and night, drivers will carry no cash. The new procedure will be tried out
thereby, hopefully, end the skyrocketing But if it saves just one life, it will be This will cause some inc~nvenience to for six months. San Francisco's Municipal
rate of bus holdups. well worth the headaches. . .. " patrons who neglect to carry tokens or Railway should closely follow the East
the precise amount of the cash fare. But Bay experiment and others in Washing-
such inconvenience is certainly to be ton and Baltimore. . . . "
fuel taxes paid by privately and publicly- 1.9 368,400 CLAIMS AND INSURANCE
owned urban transit systems from seven
BRIDGE TOLLS
cents to one cent per gallon. 1.5 296,000 AND TAXES
The legislation materially aids trans-
portation properties in continuing opera-
tions and relieves some of the financial
burden placed on property taxpayers in
Board adopts budget; costs up 6 percent
underwriting costs of transit. AC Transit will operate under a budget the directors.
Because it concerns tax on diesel only, of $19,749,700 during the 1968-69 fiscal The estimate loss also could be re-
it does not affect money going to cities year, continuing service improvements duced materially or eliminated by appli-
for local street improvements. Orthopedically handicapped youngsters necessary for community growth despite cation of a portion of the surplus re-
from the C. A. Whitton School were using
The Governor endorsed the bill several regular District buses to attend a special costs which have escalated over six per- maining from this year or from receipts
months ago and made it part of his legis- summer recreation program, as result of a cent in a year. from government grants, Bingham said.
lative progam. He emphasized the bill practice session arranged to put wheels un- The operating estimate, adopted by A week before the budget was
der the children.
would assist minorities, the aged and Training instructor George Silva worked the board of directors, tops the spending adopted, the estimate was cut by State
low-income families by providing better with each child, explaining the best board- program for the year just ended by $981,- legislation reducing diesel fuel taxes paid
transit services to and from work, partic- ing procedure to fit each problem. They 900, an increase of 5.23 percent. by transit systems. The reduction became
also learned how to pay a fare, how to sit
ularly in core areas of cities. down and how to leave. Especially, they The budget projects a deficit for the effective July 1.
Total exemption statewide amounts to were assured of driver cooperation, when it fiscal period of $460,300. Action on how Bulk of the increase in the cost of do-
about $1,800,000, less than one tenth of comes to handling wheel chairs and crutches. to make up the deficiency was deferred
After the class, 33 youngsters were able ing business was attributed to a 8.41 per-
one percent of the $560,000,000 collected to use District buses to attend the summer until August, when the tax rate will be cent boost in expenses. Over 75 percent
in gasoline and diesel taxes each year for program at the Cerebral Palsy Center for set. of the total budget, or 14,903,800, is ear-
Alameda County. Determination of final assessment val-
highway and freeway use. marked for wages, salaries, employee
uation figures and complete reports on benefits, payroll taxes and insurance.
the District's revenue for the 1967-68 Increased miles
fiscal year could well cut the deficit, The District expects to continue offer-
Alan L. Bingham, general manager, told ing better transit, Bingham said, increas-
ing annual miles operated from the
Service improvements given present total of 24,432,000 to 25,000,000,
FUEL TAX RELIEF - Governor
Ronald Reagan signs into law legis- Approval by directors a boost of 2.32 percent.
lation reducing diesel taxes paid Rerouting of Line 78-Carlson Blvd. to The budget allows for expenditure of
by urban transit systems. Present serve Crescent Park, new Richmond de- $1,154,600 for materials, services and
were, from left: Miles Hoff, Stock- velopment, and extension of a limited supplies and $1,115,100 for equipment
ton Metropolitan Transit District;
John Wells, California Association number of trips on the line to the Beth- and building replacement. Also allocated
of Publicly Owned Transit Systems; lehem Steel plant at Point Pinole were is $1,118,300 for repayment of bonded
William Bourne, Sacramento Tran- approved by the Board of Directors. debt.
sit Authority; William Farell, Long Renewal of a special service contract The tax rate for the year just ended
Beach Public Transportation Co., with Sherwood Forest area of El So- has averaged 19.2 cents per $100 of as-
Tom . Prior, . San . Diego . Transit
Corp., Robert Nisbet, AC Transit, brante also was approved, assuring stu- sessed valuation for taxpayers in the
and the Governor. dents of continued bus transit to DeAnza Alameda-Contra Costa County service
and Juan Crespi schools. area.
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SERVICES DETAILED- Work to
be performed is detailed before AC / transit PASSENGER REVENUE ... COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS YEAR
start of hold-up study pr.oject. 1,300,000
From left: George M. Taylor, proj-
1,280,000
ect director; Alan L. Bin{!,ham, gen-
eral manager; Dr. Paul Gray, Stan- 1,260,000 ..0IIII
ford Research Institute; Dr. Gordon
Misner, UniversitIJ of California 1,240,000 ..... / J~
criminologist . Jt...~ , J~ I \
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1,200,000
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and Stanford Research Institute began
work this month on the study project be- will be conducted to verify feasibility of 1,120,000 l
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ing piloted by AC Transit into means of suggested deterrents. 1,100,000 \
reducing assaults and robberies aboard Go-ahead on the project came with ap- ,~
1,080,000
the nation's transit systems. proval of a governmental ,grant of $206,- 1968
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The study is geared to determine ex- 000, two-thirds of total cost of $309,000. 1,060,000
tent of bus crimes, what is being done The national headquarters of Amalga- 1,040,000 \ 1967
to handle the problem and what can be mated Transit Union is contributing $30,- 1966
1,020,000
done. The District's own experiences with 000. Transit properties are making their
the "Ready Fare" plan will be part of contribution in direct services. 1,000,000