County Votes To Cut Citylink Funding

Responding to mounting financial pressure, the Kootenai County commissioners voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve reductions to Citylink transit service, which include shortening the hours the free bus system runs, scrapping a route to Stateline, and eliminating paratransit service for more than 40 disabled riders. “This is not the motion I want to make, but it’s the motion I have to make, with the options presented to us,” said Commissioner Dan Green before the vote at the officials’ weekly business meeting at the administration building. Reflecting on a public hearing from last week, Commissioner Todd Tondee agreed that dropping services was the only choice, without any other obvious funding sources to maintain services as they are now. … The Coeur d’Alene Tribe has long bore the brunt of funding the transit service, which cost $1.9 million in its costliest year and has slid to about $1.7 million, said Christine Fueston, county Federal Transit Administration grant administrator, on Tuesday/ Alecia Warren , CdA Press. More here. (SR file photo: A rider hops on a Citylink bus Friday at the corner of Seltice Way and McGuire Road in Post Falls)

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