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Pace 3-3-2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 21, 2019 10:00:00 AM Media Relations Office: (847) 228-4222

2019 Budget Includes 12 Eliminations; Resources to be Reinvested in System

ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, IL - Several services approved for elimination as part of the Pace 2019 budget will no longer operate after March 3, 2019. Pace's 2019 budget includes the elimination of 12 poorly performing services in total and the reallocation of $1.2 million into a $1.7 million service enhancement effort that will reduce overcrowding, improve on-time performance and support the launch of the Pulse Milwaukee Line, which is expected this fall.

The services to be eliminated in March are:

- Saturday service on Route 348 Harvey - Riverdale - Blue Island (last day of service: March 2)

- Route 362 South Park Forest (last day of service: March 1)

- Route 532 Illinois Avenue (last day of service: March 1)

- Saturday service on Route 540 Farnsworth Avenue (last day of service: March 2)

- Saturday service on Route 546 Orange - Walnut (last day of service: March 2)

Pace has worked to encourage ridership on these routes, but they are not performing to Pace's standards. As a responsible steward of taxpayer dollars, Pace can no longer support these routes. Later this year, additional routes that do not meet minimum performance standards of efficiency, productivity and ridership will be discontinued. Those services are Route 209 (Saturday service only), Route 304, Route 326, and Route 504 (Saturday service only). Pace Routes 661, 809 and 824 were eliminated effective on January 21 (last day of service: January 18).