PUBLIC HEARING BEFORE BUS SUBSIDY PROGRAM STUDY COMMISSION, HELD AT JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ON FEBRUARY 28, 1977

The Bus Subsidy Program originated in 1969 as a temporary program to preserve existing bus service while a permanent master plan for bus transportation could be developed. The aid program has increased from $530,000 during the program's first year to assist six bus carriers to a subsidy of approximately $45 million for the last fiscal year, with assistance being granted to 31 carriers. This has been an increase of over 8,000 percent in only seven years. The resolution asserts that some non-subsidized bus owners are operating at a profit while offering better service at lower fares than subsidized carriers; and it has been alleged that subsidy money is being applied by companies to underwrite large executive salaries and insurance policies. There is also a lack of incentives and other deficiencies inherent in the program. Recent audits by the Department of Transportation and reports by the Office of Fiscal Affairs have highlighted the problems and abuses in the program. The purpose of these hearings is to investigate the abuses, to examine the problems and inadequacies in a system that permits the unintended use of citizen's tax dollars. The Department of Transportation is presently in the process of evaluating consultants' reports on how to restructure New Jersey's bus system and as regards what measures should be taken to change the operation of the bus subsidy program. (Portions of this document are not fully legible)

• Corporate Authors:

  New Jersey Department of Transportation

  1035 Parkway Avenue
  Trenton, NJ  United States  08625
• Publication Date: 1977

Media Info

• Pagination: 389 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Auditing; Automobile insurance; Buses; Economic factors; Fares; Federal assistance programs; Legislation; Meetings; Project management; Public hearings; Subsidies; Transportation operations; Urban transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transportation management
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Old TRIS Terms: Transportation administration
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Economics; Finance; Highways; Law; Public Transportation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00175695
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Files: TRIS, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jun 28 1982 12:00AM