Ignoring pleas by the public to not cut specific bus routes, including from the blind and disabled community, the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Agency (HART) Monday approved a plan that could cut nearly 20 percent of its routes. Called “Mission Max,” the plan goes into effect in October.
Apparently, it’s not just the lack of hiring executive-level appointments where the Donald Trump administration is falling behind. The Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) is patiently waiting on the Federal Transit Administration to deliver more than $10 million in federal formula funding that it expected to receive before the end of the current fiscal year in September. But it hasn’t arrived yet. “This is the latest that it has ever been,” said HART CFO Jeff Seward told A HART subcommittee meeting…
Board members with the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) received some rough news Monday when they were informed that the agency is staring at a budget deficit of more than $8.5 million going into the 2018 fiscal year. There are a number of factors behind that number including a continuing decline in ridership, a national phenomenon that has been reduced by more than 11 percent at HART since 2014, amounting to more than $2.5 million in lost revenue since…
Jeff Seward, the chief financial officer for the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit authority (HART), will be attending the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change in England next spring, where he will present a workshop on the agency’s work on environmental sustainability and climate change resiliency. Seward told the HART board at Monday’s monthly meeting the invitation came after he conducted a workshop at the 12th International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability at Portland State University last January. The Ninth International…
