ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The Municipality of Anchorage plans to reduce its public bus transport service starting in October.
According to the municipality’s People Mover webpage, the changes come amid “significant workforce shortages and challenges.”
Bart Rudolph, the planning and communications manager for the public transportation department, says this would be People Mover’s first service reduction in roughly 10 years.
“This is a pretty big deal and it’s going to affect a lot of people,” Rudolph said. “So we have a public comment period that started today [July 5], goes through August 5, and we hope to get the feedback from the actual people who are riding to see where the cuts should happen.”
The service reduction will address things like the reliability and safety of the service, Rudolph said.
“We need to scale our service back to a more realistic expectation of what we can actually perform,” he said.
According to the municipality, the department spent about …