Kings Transit is receiving an investment of $175,000 from the provincial government to help upgrade it’s aging fleet of buses.
General Manager Glen Bannon says the money will be split over the counties that use the service.
“Digby, as a partner in our transit system, would receive a proportionate share of those funds (proportionate to their ridership). They currently own two buses; one of them is slated for replacement.”
The Digby bus is expected to be replaced late this year or early next and they are currently working on a replacement plan for the second bus.
Bannon says, long range, they are working on a plan to possibly expand service to Windsor in the east and Yarmouth in the west but that plan is in the very early stages.
“What we’re working on at the moment is a project to identify micro-transit applications for the Annapolis Valley regions beyond in either direction, either east or west, and part of that would potentially see us being able to connect in that direction.”
Bannon says that is one of their long term ideas but they are in the very early fact-finding stages right now.
“Perhaps as far as Windsor and beyond, maybe even to HRM, and then, down on the western end, we’d like to see the service at some point go all the way to Yarmouth. That’s kind of what we’re working on at the moment, to see what that would look like and what it would take to achieve that kind of connectivity.”
The $175,000 provincial investment is through the Strategic Community Transportation Investment Program.
