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Washington City Transit

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

CommuteInfo Can Get You to Work the 'Green' Way

The CommuteInfo program is designed to increase the number of people who travel to work or to school by riding transit, carpooling, vanpooling or bikepooling.

Commuters in the Canon-McMillan area can turn their morning and evening commutes into ones that save money and help the environment. The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission's CommuteInfo program works with transportation management associations, transportation providers, businesses and non-profit service organizations in Washington County and nine other counties to increase the number of people who travel to work or to school by riding transit, carpooling, vanpooling or bikepooling. CommuteInfo's goal is for commuters living, working or attending school within Washington County to choose ridesharing at least twice per week.  In the Pittsburgh region, 60 percent of workers commute to jobs outside of their resident municipalities, according…

Monday, December 17, 2012

Letter to the Editor: Local Public Transportation Subpar

These letter writers ask: When your bus is consistently about 20 minutes late, how reliable is it?

Dear Editor,   I'm so frustrated with being late for work all the time. What do you do when the bus you take to get to work every single day is consistently over a half-hour late from only one bus driver? People will say, "Why don't you just walk?" Well, what if you walk 4.2 miles to your job and you already have to do that every single night coming back home because no buses in your area run that late? Is that really the best option? It's bad enough to be on your feet for eight-nine hours a day, plus the walk back home. I would like to think not. Over the past several months, Washington City Transit has been becoming consistently late with its Metro route, which travels from Washington through Meadowlands, Canonsburg and Houston, to …

Insider Eyes

11:03 pm on Monday, December 17, 2012

What have Tim Solobay and Brandon Neuman done for transit in Washington? Not a single thing. Solobay will only help fund toll roads and fire trucks and Neuman will be for everything but does nothing. Time to ship them out (along with Daley and White) in 2014 for some fiscally conservative leadership.   more ›

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