Those who utilize the Winona Transit service’s demand-response dial-a-ride option will soon be able to get where they need to go later in the evening when the dial-a-ride operating hours are extended to 9 p.m. on Monday through Friday in the new year as a result of grant funds that the city recently received.

–read more at the Winona Post

The Winona Riders Coalition is pleased to learn that the City of Winona will be extending transit hours until 9:00 p.m. Monday through Friday beginning in 2020.

With the help of grant funds, the Winona City Council has approved the Winona Transit Service to begin providing Dial-a-Ride services in the evenings starting Jan. 1.

From the Winona Daily News

Winona Riders Coalition thanks the Minnesota Department of Transportation for providing the necessary grant funds, and the Winona City Council (Allyn Thurley, Eilleen Moeller, Pamela Eyden, George Borzyskowski, Michelle Alexander, and Paul Schollmeier) for their role in improving public transportation in our city. We also thank Monica Hennessy Mohan, our City Clerk, for her work and leadership in bringing this much-needed expansion of service to our community.

Yesterday, Carrie provided testimony before the State Legislature’s Transportation Finance and Policy Committee.

Read what she said here:

The Minnesota House of Representatives will be gathering in Winona from October 2-4, in order to give greater community access to the legislative process.

Visit https://www.house.leg.state.mn.us/SessionDaily/Story/14011 for details.

Around 200 cities worldwide have some form of fare-free transit, whether fully free or just free for certain user groups, in certain zones or at certain times of day. As of the book’s publication, there were 97 cities and towns with fully fare-free public transit (the book uses the term fare-free transit because, of course, transit costs money whether fares or taxes pay for it).

read more in Next City, May 25, 2018.