Winter bus schedules are back in Snowmass Village this week and some town offices close for Thanksgiving. Plus, a “major gift” to Anderson Ranch will help launch new community outreach and engagement initiatives.
Peter Magierski has been working for RFTA for a year and a half and continues to drive a bus amid the pandemic.
For years, the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority has been the valley’s annual lifeline for millions of workers, skiers and people without vehicles. And that didn’t stop with the pandemic.
The public bus system never shut down when most of the rest of the world came to a screeching halt March 14.
It was a sense of pride, duty and simple survival for many drivers, including 36-year-old Peter Magierski, an operator for one-and-a-half years.
“We keep coming. We keep coming no matter what,” Magierski said. “We chose to work in public service and transporting our community. People are going to work and they count on us.”