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The Community Newspaper Thursday, March 1, 2012 75$
Nautical Festival forum set
WHAT WILL BE THE FUTURE OF THE NAUTICAL FESTIVAL? Join Mayor Andrew Hardwick
and' the Village Board of Trustees at an open forum to discuss Freeport's Nautical Mile
Fes-Wal.Jhe forum,wl( be held on Thursday, March 8 at the Freeport Recreation Center,
',,13,0 E. Merrick Road. The forum is from 7 to 9 p.m. The pubjfc is encouraged to,-attend.
NICE to increase N4 bus service in Freeport
by Laura Schofer
The Nassau Inter-County Express,
(NICE) will be making changes to bus
service on the N4, which begins at
Freeport's train station and then to
Jamaica along Merrick Road.
Beginning April 8 there will be serv-ice
on the N4 line eastbound as well from
Jamaica to Freeport. However, peak serv-ice
on the N4 will operate every 10 min-utes
instead of every 7.5 minutes in both
directions. All trips will operate from
Jamaica to Freeport eastbound and
Freeport to Jamaica westbound.
A press release issued by NICE said
that some service changes were neces-sary
because "our contract with the
county requires that bus service levels
be adjusted to the available funds'by
early April," and the changes were
"designed to impact the fewest possible
passengers." Cuts were made to 30
routes for a savings of $7.5 million.
Meanwhile, eight routes will have
additional services.There will be serv-ice
on two new Express routes to
Jamaica and Flushing. NICE will also
restore service to the Mercy Medical
Center.
NICE is the new bus system that took
over on January 1 after the county
decided to replace the bus service. The
former provider, the Metropolitan
Transportation Authority, operated the
Long Island Bus system since 1973.
Last spring the MTA announced that
it planned to cut approximately 56% of
the bus service unless it received an
additional $26 million in funding from
Nassau County. The Nassau County
mass transit system transports 31 mil-lion
bus passengers and 280,000 para-transit
passengers each year.
After much wrangling, the county
decided to find another bus provider. In
December, the county legislature voted
to give Veolia Transportation a five-year
contract to run the new bus system, now
called NICE.
The agreement with NICE is a "pub-lic-
private partnership" between the
county and Veolia Transportation, which
also runs transportation systems in Las
Vegas, Phoenix and New Orleans. The
contract with the county preserved the
Able-Ride service area and restored the
MTA's planned route cuts. Fares
remained the same and cannot be raised
unless approved by 100% of the Nassau
County Resident Transit Committee.
"Our service designers focused on the
routes that are least used by customers
and are thus the most expensive to oper-ate.
Running virtually empty buses is
very expensive and requires large subsi-dies
from the county," reads the NICE
website.
"These proposed adjustments represent
our best judgement for achieving the sav-ings
and balanced budget that are required
of us. Please note that there have been
numerous improvements since NICE bus
began operating on January 1, including
more reliable and more on time service
and cleaner buses and facilities and
improved customer service. While the sys-tem
isn't perfect, we will continue to add
improvements with each passing month."
NAMES MAKE THE NEWS: Read about your neighbors! 31 local "people's names were in your community newspaper this past week Maybe yours is in this week! See inside.
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| Title | 2012-03-01 |
| Subject | Newspaper |
| Description | This is a Newspaper distributed locally within the Village of Freeport and Baldwin. |
| Creator | Linda Toscano |
| Publisher | L & M Publications, Inc. |
| Contributors | Scanned by Imaging & Microfilm Access, Inc. (Bohemia, NY 11716) |
| Date | 2012 |
| Type | Periodical |
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| Source | Freeport Memorial Library |
| Language | English |
| Coverage | United States |
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