By: Diane Benjamin 1) I was notified by a reader the BNWRD owns the tent city property in Normal. That’s the Bloomington Normal Water Reclamation District. Illinois law prevents them from removing the campers. It doesn’t prevent them from demanding they CLEAN up their mess. 2) I was also notified that ISU is planning for […]
By: Diane Benjamin This item should have every taxpayer concerned: Champaign-Urbana taxes directly instead of getting contributions from both cities like Connect transit does. I’ve heard for years that Connect wants to be a mass transit district with the ability to tax you directly. I guarantee if that ever happens Bloomington and Normal will not […]
By: Diane Benjamin Meeting documentation: https://connect-transit.com/file/2937/09%2024%202024_BoT%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf Every other year statistics for the year end were only delayed a month. That was June 30th, nothing is included. Transparency? This report says it is for Period 1 which if July: The losses just keep getting higher! The loss for August isn’t included but the ridership numbers are: […]
By: Diane Benjamin See what CT spent on solar panels in June: $654,088.77 Year end numbers for 6/30/2022: Look at the amount of local dollars you are forced to pay for the privilege of having empty buses wreck the roads. $760,000 + $423,333 = $1,183,333. All of those other numbers are taxes too. Those numbers […]
By: Diane Benjamin Connect Transit didn’t release financial information at their July 26th meeting because it is year end. They did provide some other interesting information – see PDF pages 28 and following: https://www.connect-transit.com/file/637/07%2026%202022_BoT%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf Passenger trips isn’t the number of people – anyone who has to transfer to another line is counted twice on their […]
By: Diane Benjamin I never got around to reporting Connect Transit had a great year! Instead of losing the budgeted $12,825,000, they only lost $11,939,195. They saved taxpayers almost $886,000! Between regular buses and Connect Mobility ridership was down 12.4% from the previous fiscal year. Connect reports Congress is going to throw them more money […]
By: Diane Benjamin See the original on PDF page 7: https://www.connect-transit.com/documents/Meetings/Packets/Board%20Packet%2012-5-19Final.pdf Shucks! Connect almost made it to a million dollar loss in 1 month! Maybe they should have traveled more and had more meetings: (PDF page 5) See PDF page 8 – Ridership on both fixed routes and mobility was down from the same month […]
