On Friday, government announced $120,000 will be spent on a two year pilot program to provide free busing to seniors in receipt of the GIS, Income support clients, and youth who participate in a youth services project.
Corner Brook Mayor Jim Parsons says we can expect to see some big changes with the city’s transit system this year. On Friday, government announced $120,000 will be spent on a two year pilot program to provide free busing to seniors in receipt of the GIS, Income support clients, and youth who participate in a youth services project. Parsons says staff have been working towards this for sometime now and implemented electronic bus passes. He says it’s a great idea which was first piloted in St. John’s a few years ago and now it is here.
Parsons says transit is an important part of our city and is essential for many people who depend on this service. He says just before Christmas the capacity was doubled by adding two new buses. Parsons says the transit is seeing a lot of usage and they just completed a study on accessibility transit and says staff are looking at new technologies, like on demand systems. He would like to see free transit offered at least as a pilot project, saying it would remove the barrier and more people would choose to ride the bus.
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