Connect Transit offering free rides to the ballot box on election day

Posted on November 7, 2022
Connect Transit bus
A complete route map can be found at connecttransit.com. (Photo courtesy: WJBC/File)

By Blake Haas

BLOOMINGTON – Election day is less than a day away, and a twin-city transportation company is offering free rides to the ballot box.

Connect Transit is offering free rides like in years past to drive out more voters.

“We’re bringing back the tradition of offering free rides to the polls on election day. We did it a number of years, and then over (the) COVID (pandemic), we just discontinued that primarily because we weren’t charging the fare over covid anyway.” Connect Transit General Manager David Braun told WJBC’s, Blake Haas. “So now we’re ruling it back out, and hopefully people will find that if they were unable to get to the polls (in years past), they will be able to on bus.”

To find a complete map of transit routes, visit connecttransit.com.

Blake Haas can be reached at [email protected].

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