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The Canadian Statesman TVuAtHde*, Bowmanville, Saturday, May 29,1993 5 Regional Police Resume Uniformed Bike Patrol The Durham Regional Police Service Service will again this year utilize two officers for the Uniformed Bicycle. Patrol. This Unit will commence operation operation on May 25th, 1993, and will consist of two Units working day and afternoon shifts. Community Based Policing will be the goal with emphasis on high visibility. Among the purposes of these Units is to effectively patrol areas not easily accessible to motorized vehicles vehicles because of the topography of the land, such as parkland and greenbelt areas. These areas in the past, have seen the least amount of patrol and enforcement, and it is for this reason that the bicycle patrol was established. established. They will also assist the regular patrols in the downtown areas and will concentrate on problem areas through complaint, high crime statistics statistics and call for service. The Bicycle Units will also be of assistance during special events, and where quick silent patrol is required. Constable Steve Marcoux and Constable Tony Rowland will again be the officers detailed to this initiative. initiative. GO Transit To Proceed With Cuts GO Transit's Board has approved the service reductions it had tabled at its May 14 meeting. In a teleconference May 20, the Board agreed to the list of reductions recommended to it last week as GO Transit's response to a -$6.5 million cut in the operating subsidy it will re 1 ceive from the Province this fiscal year. The Board has tabled the recommendations recommendations and instructed GO Chairman Chairman Lou Parsons to seek a meeting with senior Ontario Government ministers ministers "to discuss alternative methods of achieving a reduced operating budget budget without significant impact on GO Transit service levels". Parsons has since met with George Dadamo, Parliamentary Assistant Assistant to Minister of Transportation Gilles Pouliot, who is out of the country. "It was an excellent meeting," said Parsons. "Mr. Dadamo listened with empathy to the concerns the Board expressed about taking action which could reduce the quality of à much-needed transit service. However, However, he reiterated the Government's position that the operating subsidy must be reduced by the amount stated." stated." Dadamo did confirm that the Ministry Ministry of Transportation had, through reductions in other areas, found a way to maintain the fare integration program in its present form until the end of 1993. This program allows pre-ticketed GO passengers to ride municipal buses to and from the GO Train station at no additional fare. Part of GO's reduction program was a 50-percent cut in the subsidy it pays the local systems for fare integration. The package of service reductions, reductions, which the GO Board has now agreed arc the best way to achieve the cost reduction goals, includes substituting GO Buses for Lakeshorc line trains during off-peak periods on weekdays and all day on weekends between Oakville and Burlington and between Pickering and Whitby; cancelling cancelling the single weekday train serving serving Acton and Guelph and the one serving Baltic; eliminating bus service service between Richmond Hill, Markham Markham and Scarborough Centre and all but one of the buses operating in off- peak hours between Union Station and Richmond Hill; the reduction in the fare integration subsidy; and raising raising fares on bus service operated under under contract between Finch subway and Richmond Hill. The Board has agreed at last week's meeting to recommend Government Government approval of a system-wide 2-percent fare increase, as well as a raise from 60 cents to $1.30 in the fare surcharge on passengers travelling travelling into downtown Toronto on GO's Uxbridge route buses, and the elimination elimination of GO'S subsidy for the TTC/ GO Twin Pass. PETER PRIDIE Welcomes You To Pharmacist Mukesh IS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. ESC DELIVERS - CALL US AT 697-5000 MAXI DRUG COMPREHENSIVE DELIVERY SERVICE ASK OUR PHARMACIST - PETER Z05 MHG ST. L Pharmacist Ramesh BOWMANVILLE Expect it all in a drugstore ... even a friend! - Your Pharmacist -