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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED RESOLUTION NO. 2008 -106 BY: The Mayor and the Entire City Council A RESOLUTION OPPOSING THE PROPOSAL OF THE GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY ("GCRTA') TO RED UCE B US TRANSPOR TA TION SER VICES TO THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, BY ELIMINATING THE NUMBER 96F AND 87F ROUTES, AND MODIFYING THE NUMBER 75X ROUTE SO AS TO CANCEL ALL WEEKDAY DIRECT SERVICE TO DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, the North Olmsted Municipal Bus Line ("NOMBL"), Ohio's oldest public bus line until it merged with the GCRTA in 2005, for 74 years provided high quality bus transportation services to the residents of North Olmsted and surrounding communities; and WHEREAS, the Number 87F (Westwood I-90), 96F (Butternut-Hilliard) and 75X routes, are all important bus routes formerly operated by NOMBL which provided vital transit services for the residents of the City of North Olmsted and surrounding communities for many, many years; and WHEREAS, the Number 75X route, which provides bus transportation for residents from the Lorain County Line on Lorain Road in North Olmsted to downtown Cleveland, has been in operation since 1931, and is one of the most important and critical routes for bus service for North Olmsted and other western suburb residents desiring to travel directly by bus to downtown Cleveland; and WHEREAS, the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority ("GCRTA"), which now operates these bus routes fortnerly operated by NOMBL, has proposed to eliminate the Nur _'_)er 96F and 87F routes, and to modify the Number 75X route so that it no longer provides weekday direct bus service to downtown Cleveland; and WHEREAS, the Number 96F, 87F and 75X routes all provide important, and sometimes critically important, bus transportation services to residents in North Olmsted and surrounding western suburbs of Cuyahoga County, especially to elderly and lower income residents who are very dependent upon these routes in the course of their daily lives; and WHEREAS, if the Number 87F and 96F bus routes are eliminated, and the 75X bus route is modified as proposed, it will result in the loss of transportation services that are vital to the needs of many residents in the western suburbs of Cuyahoga County, especially to elderly, lower income and other transportation-dependent residents; and WHEREAS, it is particularly egregious for the GCRTA to consider and propose in such difficult economic times the elimination and modification of such vital bus services to Cuyahoga County suburban bus riders, given that the suburban residents of Cuyahoga County, through ttieir payment of sales taxes, provide a large portion, if not the majority, of the revenues received by the GCRTA for its mass transportation operations within Cuyahoga County, and are accordingly entitled to receive from GCRTA a fair and reasonable level of suburban bus services;