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Greenway Public Transportation touts ridership gains, asks counties to sustain local match for fare-free service
Summary
Greenway Public Transportation presented data showing increased ridership after a temporary fare-free policy and described service types, funding sources and a request that local governments continue matching funds to sustain flex and microtransit services.
Michael Bowman, executive director of Greenway Public Transportation, briefed the Board of Commissioners on July 21 about the agency’s four-county operations and results from recent service changes in Burke County.
Bowman described three service types the agency runs in Burke County: demand-response (advance-booked paratransit), a FlexRoute loop serving Morganton and a same-day microtransit service. He said Greenway provides more than 13,000 trips per year in Burke County and that typical funding mixes are roughly 50% federal and state grants, 25% from…
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