{"id":144694,"date":"2023-10-04T17:23:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/rwddev\/?p=144694"},"modified":"2023-10-04T20:57:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T00:57:29","slug":"huntsville-looking-at-adding-two-buses-to-its-public-transit-inventory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsville-looking-at-adding-two-buses-to-its-public-transit-inventory\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville looking at adding two buses to its public transit inventory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>During the reports from committees part of the General Committee meeting on September 27, Active Transportation and Public Transit Committee Chair Bob Stone told fellow councillors that the Town has received a $269,000 grant for buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said staff is investigating the addition of two new buses, &#8220;which would allow us to expand routes and potentially we could expand the hours in which we operate,&#8221; said Stone, adding that work is on the way and there will hopefully be an announcement related to the initiative next spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stone also said staff are looking at putting bike racks on the public transit buses and throughout the town, which will be part of the 2024 daft budget, although Councillor Jason FitzGerald noted that community organizations may want to get involved and donate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Stone also spoke of cars parking in active transportation lanes between the high school and Town Line. &#8220;So working with the District, we&#8217;re going to be putting up some no parking signs and some sharrows to ensure that pedestrians and bikes can travel safely in that area.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the reports from committees part of the General Committee meeting on September 27, Active Transportation and Public Transit Committee Chair Bob Stone told fellow councillors that the Town has [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":144697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - 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