Thursday, December 3, 2009

New Orland Park budget includes Dial-a-Ride service during weekdays in 2010

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Village of Orland Park Dial-A-Ride Service Included in 2010 Budget
Service to Include Two Week Day Buses

    ORLAND PARK, IL – The Village of Orland Park Board of Trustees has authorized Village Manager Paul Grimes to include funding in the village’s FY2010 Budget for the community’s PACE Dial-A-Ride Bus Program. Two buses will operate on week days beginning with the New Year, with the one way fare being $5.00 per rider.
      “I’m glad that we were able to find a way to maintain our restructured Dial-A-Ride Service for the village,” said Orland Park Mayor Dan McLaughlin.  
“The public provided helpful insight into how important the village’s bus service is to them and the new fare and service structure is a result of the community’s input,” McLaughlin added. 
“The board and I were especially concerned with the number of individuals with disabilities and seniors who rely on the village’s buses
and have no other means of transportation,” McLaughlin said, adding, “That’s why we started the service in the first place. “For door-to-door transportation, $5.00 each way is a very reasonable fare,” the mayor said.
                  The projected subsidy for the modified level of service is projected to cost approximately $80,000 for the fiscal year. The village will pay for this service by making offsetting cost reductions in other areas of the operating budget.
                  The Orland Park Board of Trustees is expected to adopt the FY2010 budget at its meeting on December 7, 2009. Changes to the bus service and fares will begin January 1, 2010.
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  1. AnonymousDecember 10, 2009 at 6:39 AM

    THIS TOWN...that, we have live in for OVER 4 DECADES NEEDS???? HELP..
    HAVE THEY THOUGHT THAT..NOT ! EVERYONE..can afford the cost now for the PACE BUS? THERE ARE SENIORS and DISABLED on FIXED INCOMES! AND? THE TOWNSHIP 'CARS' ARE NOT ALWAYS AVAILABLE, either....What happened to? a REDUCED COST for these folks?
    KIDS? THEIR COST???

    What IS this TOWN COMING TO? WITH ALL OF THE EMPTY REAL ESTATE? oh, yes..probably? PRETTY DEAD in a decade or so! BEST THINK THAT OUT, too!

    NOW..YOUR SNOW PLOW SO CALLED ...WONDERFUL ONES?....THEY NEED HELP! THEY DO NOT! DO A THING THAT IS REALLY RIGHT..DO THEY THINK? OR KNOW!?? THAT THEY DO NOT PLOW RIGHT, that THEY BURY DRIVEWAYS OF SENIORS AND THE DISABLED WHO? CAN STILL..DRIVE but? WHO CANNOT SHOVEL OUT THE MESS THESE DRIVES LEAVE AT THE FOOT OF THEIR DRIVEWAYS? DO THEY THINK or SEE??? THE ICE LOADED AT THE FOOT OF THESE DRIVEWAYS? GUESS NOT!..NO ONE? SEEMS TO CARE..just? GO AND DO A JOB..SO WHAT IF...THAT BLADE IS NOT DROPPED RIGHT..SO WHAT ! IF...THE PILES OF SNOW? BLOCK A VIEW OF ONCOMING TRAFFIC ON...VILLAGE STREETS AT THE CORNERS! But,BOY..YOU BEST GET YOU VEHICLE OFF THAT STREET by 2" of snow!~ THAT? UPSETS THEM and the POLICE....So? TICKETS ARE OK? BUT? BURYING THE DRIVE ENDS AND BEING UNDER TOTAL AWFUL ICE? IS JUST FINE....
    SOME FOLKS HERE..GET..a little more SPECIAL TREATMENT...so? I suggest that...SOMEONE STEP UP TO THE PLATE AND JUST..for once in your POLITICAL LIVES! THINK !!! ABOUT...someone OTHER than either yourselves or your 'pals'....
    Whatever happened to...THE BOY SCOUTS COMING TO HELP? THAT USED TO WORK..or? THE TEENS from many many CHURCH GROUPS? OR? THE GUY NEXT DOOR who MIGHT be..a tad bit healthier than you? hummmm....
    Seems that...there IS no CONSIDERATION FOR THE OLD FOLKS, not? one way or...the other around here....
    Perhaps? MOVING is BETTER..make MORE...EMPTY..REAL ESTATE and let the buses ROLL and the SNOWPLOW CHAPS? MAKE THEIR MESS...
    This town is going to have a LOT of PROBLEMS...caused by themselves.

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