Yolo County Bus Shortage Cuts Intercounty Routes

DAVIS (CBS13) – A dire shortage of autobus drivers is atrocious quality for Yolo County commuters traveling to Sacramento. Buses that usually question from Yolo to Sacramento counties are present parked.

“The shortage is conscionable that dire and virtually we cannot run everything we person planned,” said Yolo County Transit District Executive Director Autumn Bernstein.

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The Yolo County Transportation District (YCTD) Board of Directors voted Monday to temporarily chopped 4 autobus lines from Woodland and Davis to downtown Sacramento due to the fact that of a deficiency of drivers and debased ridership. The institution said it’s portion of lingering impacts from the pandemic.

“These thin to maine much white-collar workers; galore of them person different options for getting to work; these are not are astir transit-dependent communities,” explained Bernstein. “What we wanted to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic imaginable is sphere the ridership connected those lifeline services that radical truly trust connected to get to aesculapian services, to get to the market store,” she said.

The impermanent cuts are connected autobus routes that mean 5 radical connected each thrust connected explicit and Commuter Routes 43, 43R, 45 and 230, according to Bernstein.

“I don’t deliberation we person an close estimation of the measurement of radical who mightiness beryllium opposed to this proposal,” explained 1 commuter during nationalist comment.

One commuter during Monday’s gathering said the cuts volition adhd an hr to his trip.

“Removing the route…would beryllium unfair for many. Previous comments authorities that driving for them is an alternative, but I don’t ain a car and neither bash galore that thrust the bus,” explained the commuter.

The cuts travel conscionable 2 days earlier the commencement of schoolhouse astatine UC Davis, wherever drivers are needed for routes astatine the school.

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The committee besides approved a impermanent fixed way successful Davis with YoloBus operating the A Line astatine astir 30 infinitesimal frequency, and the L Line astatine astir 60-minute frequency, effectual September 22, 2021.

This comes astatine a clip that Yolobus was looking to grow its services to the university.

“We are spreading the pain; we are not conscionable slashing the commuter routes, we are besides cutting the work to the assemblage successful half,” Bernstein said.

Students are besides feeling the impact. Yolobus partners with the university’s autobus service. Changes successful services volition besides widen hold times for students to get to and from school.

“It decidedly makes it a batch hard from getting to school, to location oregon volition unit radical to person to hold longer oregon possibly not marque the docket astatine each due to the fact that classes are going to commencement soon,” said pupil Ashwin Ramakrishna.

Bernstein does not cognize however agelong the changes volition past but hopes the reddish airy successful services doesn’t past for long.

“I deliberation we request to look earnestly astatine however overmuch we are paying our drivers and what benignant of benefits they are providing to marque definite we are keeping them connected board,” explained Bernstein.

Bernstein added that drivers did person a wage summation arsenic good arsenic bonuses connected September 1 and she hopes that volition assistance support drivers connected their staff. In total, 13 drivers person precocious left, Bernstein says.

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