WRTA to cut Saturday bus service


August 27, 2007 at 4:04p.m.

WRTA to cut Saturday bus service

YOUNGSTOWN — For the first time in its 36-year history, the Western Reserve Transit Authority plans to eliminate its Saturday bus service, at least temporarily, after this weekend, the authority announced today.

The suspension of Saturday service was announced together with abolition of certain runs on several authority routes beginning next week. The authority does not operate on Sundays and holidays.

Although notices of the cuts were posted and handed out to passengers today at Federal Station, the authority’s downtown Youngstown transit hub, Mike Bosela, president of the authority’s board of trustees, said no cuts can actually occur without a vote of the trustees.

The board will conduct a public meeting at 3 p.m. Thursday in the authority’s offices at 604 Mahoning Ave. to consider the cuts.

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