The Abington Bus
 

 The senior bus was on the chopping block in 2010  and was cut in 2011 .  There are numerous .

Why was the bus cut : 

The cost to run it - $72,000  

The number of users approximately 20 

These figures afforded Oct 29, 2010 Budget meeting by outgoing manager Conway .The number of trips is just a few thousand, apparently by the same 20 people - which calculates out to  about $3600 per person -  $24 per ride ( $24 out to the store and $24  back...?)  at taxpayer expense.   Can you say " what were they thinking " ?  And have we checked - are the riders indigent - or is it possible they have as much $ as the taxpayers being asked to fund them?

The funding comes from about $48,000 worth of advertising  (blight) on our bus shelters, a 14,000 grant and then yet another $10,000  from township coffers.  In essence , out of your pocket.  Bus shelters were set up to accept the advertising to create a stream of income to initiate the bus.  Some of the ads that we have seen have been positively horrible .  Movies, for  example, often use the most "provocative" scene from the movie that they can find  as an attention grabber.  This is what now lines your highways.  Despite the fact that the bus is being cut, you don't suppose you will be getting your scenic roadway back, do you. Far from it. In fact, we are told that the monies are already "accounted for" in other parts of the budget now.  Additionally,  As  of this year, accommodations for advertising on bridges/ billboards/ buildings etc are all being considered as well.  Yes, your voices, and your attention to what is going on are required if we are to maintain our suburb as we would like it. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Abington Township revamped the entire Township website at the end of 2015 and broke all the links to the information. In 2017, under Richard Manfredi, someone inexperienced was assigned to redo the entire website again. The public was not asked what problems they would like to see fixed. Their new plan was not well thought out, so everything was very hard to find and there were giant paragraphs you had to slog through in order to find the pertinent one or two lines that you needed. Or if you were lucky enough to even find the meetings and agenda page, there was (and still is) a whole page of nonsense on top, so you think you're on the wrong page. Zoom limks are burrid in a giant paragraph, so people can't find them to attend the meeting. They know about these  problems - but have just decided to ignore us.... for the whole of Richard Manfredi's time here (with Tom Hecker's consent).

 Now, in 2025, we are due to get a new Manager, and there are funds put aside to, once again, upgrade the Township website. We can only hope for a fresh chance at fixing some of these things, as our Township website is the best tool we have for communication and should be an easy, user friendly site for all.

We need volunteers willing to work together to help improve the Township site that everyone has to use,  to make it functional and accessible. 

 We will be repairing our broken links in this Abington Citizens site, too, and fixing some of our many, many typo's as much as is possible. (Yes, it's quite evident that, unlike the Township, WE don't have a paid staff of 275+ or a $93 million budget).

 So...please let us know if you find broken links or typos. Send us the URL and/or and the name of the page it is on, so we can correct it.
Thanks for the help.

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