Riders flock to new Lake County bus service for seniors, disabled; ‘This is a seamless, borderless system for all of Lake County’
Lake County News-Sun
Years of planning and a pair of pilot programs were necessary to get Ride Lake County off the ground, but once it started earlier this month there were nearly 1,000 registrants and more than 400 rides the first five days.
Ride Lake County began operation May 1 providing seniors 60 and over — as well as people with disabilities — a ride anywhere in the county they need to go for no more than $12 per round-trip on a specially equipped Pace bus.
“This is a seamless, borderless system for all of Lake County,” Lake County Board Chair Sandy Hart said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 6 at the offices of the Lake County Department of Transportation. “Before, it was a complicated patchwork where people had to change buses.” …