Complex sentence: Turner cited difficulties in making the service profitable as justification for the discontinuation; a further expansion, which would have added "several thousand" locations to the network at a cost of $35 million, was aborted by the shutdown.
Split into simpler sentences: Turner cited difficulties in making the service profitable as justification for the discontinuation. A further expansion, which would have added "several thousand" locations to the network at a cost of $35 million, was aborted by the shutdown.