On Wednesday, June 10th, the Michigan Senate Appropriations Committee voted to cut the Local Bus Operating program by $4.28 million and the AMTRAK rail passenger operating grant by $2 million dollars.
This will continue a "death by a million cuts" to our local bus services, but it is even more devastating to Amtrak as the $2 million cut will result in the loss of either the rail services along the Port Huron to Chicago route or the Grand Rapids to Chicago route. It actually could result in the loss of both routes!!
Fast, frequent and dependable trains, combined with local buses, are an important tool for dealing with our economic, environmental and energy crises. Michigan should be expanding passenger rail and transit, not cutting.
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