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Mountain Rides, which operates daily routes from Bellevue to Sun Valley, received a $30,000 dollar grant from the National Aging and Disability Transportation Center. The money will allow the public transportation provider to test out a new route to Twin Falls starting in April.
“People are always trying to find someone to take them, said Kim MacPherson, the community development director at Mountain Rides, about people in the Wood River Valley needing transportation to Twin Falls, about an hour and a half south of Sun Valley. That person has to take the day off, and it ends up becoming a big deal,” she said.