Regional transit users, specifically the ones on the Vernon to UBC-Okanagan run, will be getting some relief from overcrowding soon. RDNO chair Patrick Nicol says they'll reduce summer runs when school is out, allowing for two additional runs a day when it's in. He says that plan should start "early in the new year." "So it's underway. It's not as fast as we all would like, but it's faster than we thought we'd be able to do," Nicol tells Kiss FM. Nicol says there'll be another decision around May next year, on a third bus, which will be based on the number of users. "It would be the Nova, the new bus that carries a few more people, and then we would have the ability to move more people to UBCO." The board also discussed using double-decker buses, but favoured the Novas. The improvements are contingent on an RDNO alternative approval process on cost sharing for the second bus, the one Vernon's been funding alone. That closes at 4 Monday afternoon requiring 6,218 voters (10% of 62,175 qualified electors) to say no for it to fail.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Plan For More UBCO Bus Runs
Written by Glen Morrison 107.5 KISSFM Thursday, 22 November 2012 15:05
Regional transit users, specifically the ones on the Vernon to UBC-Okanagan run, will be getting some relief from overcrowding soon. RDNO chair Patrick Nicol says they'll reduce summer runs when school is out, allowing for two additional runs a day when it's in. He says that plan should start "early in the new year." "So it's underway. It's not as fast as we all would like, but it's faster than we thought we'd be able to do," Nicol tells Kiss FM. Nicol says there'll be another decision around May next year, on a third bus, which will be based on the number of users. "It would be the Nova, the new bus that carries a few more people, and then we would have the ability to move more people to UBCO." The board also discussed using double-decker buses, but favoured the Novas. The improvements are contingent on an RDNO alternative approval process on cost sharing for the second bus, the one Vernon's been funding alone. That closes at 4 Monday afternoon requiring 6,218 voters (10% of 62,175 qualified electors) to say no for it to fail.
Regional transit users, specifically the ones on the Vernon to UBC-Okanagan run, will be getting some relief from overcrowding soon. RDNO chair Patrick Nicol says they'll reduce summer runs when school is out, allowing for two additional runs a day when it's in. He says that plan should start "early in the new year." "So it's underway. It's not as fast as we all would like, but it's faster than we thought we'd be able to do," Nicol tells Kiss FM. Nicol says there'll be another decision around May next year, on a third bus, which will be based on the number of users. "It would be the Nova, the new bus that carries a few more people, and then we would have the ability to move more people to UBCO." The board also discussed using double-decker buses, but favoured the Novas. The improvements are contingent on an RDNO alternative approval process on cost sharing for the second bus, the one Vernon's been funding alone. That closes at 4 Monday afternoon requiring 6,218 voters (10% of 62,175 qualified electors) to say no for it to fail.
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