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Councilor urges residents to back Southwest Transit as regional allocation decisions loom
Summary
Council Member McGraw warned that upcoming regional sales-tax allocation discussions could affect Southwest Transit funding and urged residents who use and value the service to voice support; he also described recent ridership increases and deployment of automated passenger counters at the State Fair trial.
Council Member McGraw told the Chaska City Council on Monday that Southwest Transit reported higher than usual ridership during recent events and that the agency is testing automated passenger counters that could eventually feed real-time occupancy information to riders. “Likely looks like it might be a record for number of transit riders we transported,” McGraw said, giving preliminary figures: “we were at like 63,000 compared to 58,000 for the previous year, like a 7% increase.” He said an…
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