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Article: Prior Lake opts for its own buses; City quits surburban transit line to offer quicker, cheaper service.(NEWS)(Getting There)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- January 24, 2002
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Byline: Laurie Blake; Staff Writer
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Prior Lake this month pulled out of a six-suburb transit company after concluding that it could provide faster and cheaper bus service on its own.
This is a small move on the large transit chessboard, but worth noting for two reasons: It's ironic, and it raises questions about how best to provide bus service.
Understanding the irony requires a look back at 1982, when legislators passed a law allowing suburbs unhappy with the bus service they were getting from the Metropolitan Transit Commission (now known as Metro Transit) to "opt out" and put the tax money they were paying for it to ...