Photo: Mira Hartford
Last week, the Connecticut Department of Transportation provided a friendly holiday reminder to transit riders that the first of three scheduled 4% fare increases will take effect on January 1, 2012. The fare increase really is a gift that keeps on giving—it will be the first of three consecutive 4% fare hikes in the coming years. Happy holidays, Connecticut transit riders!
Transit will get some good news this holiday season, though: ConnDOT commissioner James Redeker has put train and bus schedules onto Google Transit. Currently, seven of the state’s eight transit districts have uploaded their schedules, with the lone outstanding district, Waterbury, primed to join the fun by the end of January.
The tie-in to Google Transit will clearly benefit CTTransit passengers, and it may also help draw new riders into the system. Often, people that have access to transit simply don’t use it because they don’t know how the trains and buses work (or when they’re coming). By making its system more user-friendly, ConnDOT stands to increase customer satisfaction and ridership.
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