Bus Riders Upset with End of Saturday Service

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Bus Riders Upset with End of Saturday Service

By KFBB News Team

This Saturday will be the last you'll find Great Falls Transit Busses taking people where they need to go in the Electric City. About 400 people ride the bus on any given Saturday and those people aren't happy about the change. More than 50 people gathered last night at a meeting about the change, but transit board members voted unanimously to stop service. They say with the prices of gas, they have to cut costs somewhere. For every penny gas goes up, it cost the transit service an extra $1,200 a year. Next year they expect to spend nearly half a million dollars on gas, that's up from 176 thousand in 2005. But there's still hope. A resolution in the House of Representatives could send money to transportation services across the county and more than $600,000 of that would come to Great Falls over the next two years. The transit service encourages you to write your legislators asking for them to pass the measure.

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