[Nfbmt] FW: Schedule for Big Bear Transit: Starting date on Friday Jan. 23, 2014

[James Aldrich]

Hi again Rebecca and all,

I do appreciate all you have done to keep us up to date with the 
emerging Big Bear Service.  It takes time for something like this to 
establish itself!

I'm certain we may need to connect in Butte to get to Helena or Great 
Falls at some point but we'll have to see how things develop!  The 
bottom line is proffit!  If this doesn't happen, it won't last!  Or, it 
may need to be subsidized in some way!  Time will tell!  I of course am 
hopeful that we will again have reliable transportation across the 
state again! I was merely stating how it has been for some while even 
during the recent peak days of when we had transportation!

Jim


Original message:
> I guess Big Bear won't benefit you guys much unless you want to take the bus
> to Missoula and transfer to the Big Bear bus here.  It helps the rest of us
> out a lot though and I guess if you want to take Big Bear bad enough to go
> to Great Falls, you will come to Missoula and transfer.  Transportation is
> never awesomely convenient when you are blind but at least we can accomplish
> it now.  I'm certainly not complaining. It's been my experience that if the
> persons who are running the routes can see a real interest and need for
> additional routes, like a route from Billings to Great Falls directly, then
> someone will make it happen but if no one is trying to get from Great Falls
> to Billings on the bus, then no one will see the need for a route and so
> none will be put together.  If we don't use this Big Bear route, then we
> will lose it also.  I don't want to lose our bus service to Great Falls and
> Helena again so I'm going to make a point of taking it whenever possible so
> it will succeed and maybe even expand.
> Becca

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James Aldrich
> Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 7:41 PM
> To: nfbmt at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] FW: Schedule for Big Bear Transit: Starting date on
> Friday Jan. 23, 2014

> Hi Rebecca and all,

> There hasn't been a direct bus from Billings to Great Falls for some time
> now!  We got there through Butte and Helena, and before Rimrock shut down,
> we had a more direct route to Helena which doesn't exist any more.  Imagine,
> we'd have to figure out how to connect with Big Bear presently!

> Jim

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