Connect Transit schedules public meetings to explain route changes

Posted on August 4, 2017

By Eric Stock

NORMAL – Connect Transit has scheduled a series of information sessions to help its riders adjust to new route reductions and the expansion of its Connect Mobility on demand service.

The first of the six community education sessions will be next Wednesday at United Way of McLean County offices, 201 E. Grove St., Bloomington. The next meeting will be on Aug. 17 at Heartland Bank’s Community Room at 200 W. College Ave., Normal.

The following meetings are Aug. 21 at Connect Transit, 351 Wylie Drive, Normal; Aug. 29 at Normal Library, 206 W. College Ave., Normal; Sept. 5 at Uptown Station Community Room, 11 Uptown Circle, Normal and Sept. 17 at Connect Transit.

All sessions are scheduled for 5-6 p.m.

Connect Transit approved route cuts last week as part of a cost-saving measure to help the transit service replace more than half of its fixed-route buses over the next five years.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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