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The Herald, Tuesday, August 19, 1980, _

- Sale Price

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Sale Price

$1 205
81 0.95.

Cost
- to city
x $22, 400.

+ Kitiinat’s bus. ‘system,
which has been te |

af the “success stories ae
Urban Transit in British
Columbia, -

Kitimat civie leaders’ first
gtarted thinking about
». developing a hus service for
the growing: community
back in 1972 when the then
—,provinelal government |
“enacted the act providing for
50 percent provincial subsidy
‘for transit operating deficits

” in a miiicipality: . Electors
, first had. to approve ‘bus |.

* service through 8 referen-
‘dum. .

In fact, there was 50 much,

interest in a transit system
-in the community that an
experimental service was
instituted with the municipal
council footing the entire
$100,000 bill in April, 1974 ~
three months before a
referendum was held, The
referendum ‘was passed by

, A overwhelming 0 percent.

- Since the busses started
sunning in 1974, the system
has grown until” today
‘Kitimat has the ~largest

~ umber of busses per‘capita
‘of any small community in
_theprovince — six vehicles (2.
“for school service) serving a.

/ population of 13,000." -

Kitimat runs busses longer.

than any other small com- .

"munity — from 6:30 a.m.
until 12:20 a.m, the following |
’ day, and its fare structure of
® cents for adulls and 15
cents for children in the
lowest in the province.
Alvan Zaharko, president
of Coastal Bus Lines,
operator of the service in
- Kitimat says th volume of
traffic - 692,000" rides in-
' eluding 35 percentof its coats
through fare ‘box revenue
compared’ ‘with an average
85 percent recovery In all of
the one community

syste!
The coat to the District of
Terrace to run the transit

system for the remainder of

‘the year will be ap-
, : proximately $22,400, while
~ the provincial share will be
‘$41,800.

Fares from the system are
* expected to cover 25.4
- percent of the costs,

: The Terracé Transit
1. Berviee will-be operated by.
Coastal Bus Lines Limited of
Kitimat. Coastal also
+ operates the Kitimat and

Prince Rupert systems.

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; take itjust. to see the sights: ae
To see how.we run, take.a: ook at this: service .
map. And, ask “your driver fora shiny new! =

every hour, :

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weekday.rush hours: ‘And ee is late e evening

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