{"id":26762,"date":"2011-06-16T19:59:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_columbia_south_carolina_the_deficit_hits_the_bus_system\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T19:59:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T19:59:19","slug":"in_columbia_south_carolina_the_deficit_hits_the_bus_system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26762","title":{"rendered":"In Columbia, South Carolina the Deficit hits the bus system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpectedly huge $3 million budget shortfall for the Columbia area\u2019s bus system is likely to cut the number of routes in half and cost as many as 40 jobs in the company that operates the buses, transit officials disclosed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The figures were released at a specially called meeting of the Central Midlands Regional Transit Authority board attended by fewer than the required seven-member quorum. The board took no action but asked chairwoman Joyce Dickerson to make an appeal to Columbia City Council to offset $618,000 of the red ink.<\/p>\n<p>That still would leave a $2.5 million shortage for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2011\/06\/16\/1860856\/deficit-hits-bus-system.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unexpectedly huge $3 million budget shortfall for the Columbia area\u2019s bus system is likely to cut the number of routes in half and cost as many as 40 jobs in the company that operates the buses, transit officials disclosed<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26762\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,54,615,149,597,151,596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-city-government","category-economy","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market","category-politics-in-general","category-the-credit-freeze-crisis-of-fall-2008the-recession-of-2007"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}