PAT-plank

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* Insist upon and organize a comprehensive audit with hearings on PAT's operations, management and services. 
** Costs, benefits, service records, and justifications for every bus route must be detailed and benchmarked. An inventory of assets and assessments of performances of PAT by management and patrons needs to be compiled and contrasted with other best-practices among other cities.
* Drastic changes to downtown traffic patterns for busses need to be planned, studeid and implemented.
** Remove buses from side streets. Buses need to stay on the main streets.
** Remove buses from downtown street. Downtown shuttles can pull commeters to edge hubs.
** Install more back and forth routes.
* User fees and rate changes must reflect the actual costs of service. 
** Scholarships and subsidized rider programs can be crafted, established and monitored for the poor, seniors, and special needs patrons.
* Capital costs and investments need to be justified, connected to a master plan and related to the existing inventory.
* PAT's monopoly on mass transit for the area needs to end. Other modes, lines, and carriers can be permitted to enter the marketplace with few restrictions. 
* Consolidation of PAT Police Force could occur with another public safety service provider, such as the County or a State Police detail.
* Inject opportunities of accountability by democracy by adjusting PAT Board Member's terms to include retention votes cast by the voters county-wide on election days.
==Links==
* PAT
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