GRAND ISLAND CRANE TRANSIT LOOKING AT CONTRACTING WITH RIDESHARE COMPANY FOR SERVICES

GRAND ISLAND- The answer to Grand Islands transit problems remains a growing concern for CRANE transit.

Contracting with an Uber-style company for “mobility on demand” services for the community is one solution being considered.

A series of Go GI focus group sessions held this week at Grand Island City Hall proposed other alternatives and took input from the community on how to improve local transit.

The responses from these focus groups will be used to help draft a development plan that is headed by the Grand Island Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. Focus Groups began in December and stretch through September of this year.

So far, three options have been proposed: Expansion of current service; service addition, potentially “mobility-on-demand” and going to a fixed-route system.

“Mobility on demand” summons and pays for a ride via mobile phone, examples being Uber and Lyft.

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