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Future of transit could include free rides for kids 12 and under
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One driver tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week.
However. Amalgamated Transit Union Local 966 President Fred Caputo is not aware if a contact source has been identified.
Transit manager Brad Loroff said the department has not been contacted about the case by the Thunder Bay District Health Unit.
On instructions from the TBDHU, since July 2020 riders have been requested to wear a mask even when physical distancing can be maintained on a bus.
Exemptions are permitted for those with medical conditions including breathing difficulties, cognitive difficulties, and hearing or communication difficulties. Right now the health unit is just doing it as a recommendation, and we are getting passengers using that as a means to get on without wearing a mask.They say they have asthma. They get on and they re coughing. Other passengers feel uneasy, and a lot of them have been are getting off, Caputo said.
City freezes transit fares as it hones 2021 budget
Councillors look to make targeted investments while holding tax levy increase below two per cent.
Jan 28, 2021 9:14 AM By: Ian Kaufman
Thunder Bay Transit fares and fees will hold steady in 2021, following a vote of city council Wednesday. (Leith Dunick, tbnewswatch.com)
THUNDER BAY – Thunder Bay’s city council found room for some small, but hopefully impactful increases to the 2021 municipal budget Wednesday night, as it nears the end of a month-long review.
Councillors voted to freeze transit fares and boost budgets for the Waterfront BIA and city strategies on food, poverty, and aging at a Wednesday night meeting.
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