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Transit tasked to win back riders
Winnipeg Transit is set to offer a plan next month for how it will attract riders back to buses.
Bus ridership and fare revenues have plummeted throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, with ridership currently hovering around 48 per cent of normal levels.
At Monday’s finance committee meeting, councillors asked city staff to detail how the department will ensure riders return as soon as possible, as provincial public health orders are slated to end over the next month.
“We want to see people back on the bus in the spring and summer. We want to see an increase in Transit ridership and a return to people using transit as a regular means of transportation,” Coun. Scott Gillingham, who leads the committee, told the Free Press.
The plan is due back at the March 10 finance committee meeting.
WFPS overrun grows to $5.6M
Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service will exceed its 2021 budget by a further $2.2 million.
On Monday, council’s finance committee unanimously approved a second budget overrun for the service for that budget year, bringing the department’s total over-expenditure to about $5.6 million.
Since the tab was primarily linked to higher overtime and other pandemic costs, it was likely unavoidable, said Gillingham.
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Joyanne is city hall reporter for the Winnipeg Free Press. A reporter since 2004, she began covering politics exclusively in 2012, writing on city hall and the Manitoba Legislature for the Winnipeg Sun before joining the Free Press in early 2020. Read more about Joyanne.
Every piece of reporting Joyanne produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print — part of the Free Press‘s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press’s history and mandate, and learn how our newsroom operates.
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