麻豆AV Regional Transit has launched a year-long promotional campaign to mark 颈迟鈥檚 40th anniversary and recognize the role transit plays in the community.
The system started in 1976 as a private company, Lake Valley Transit, before becoming 麻豆AV Transit as part of a municipal partnership the following year. At the time it just served the City of 麻豆AV.
In 1981, HandyDart service was added and in 1982 service was expanded to the west side of the 濒补办别鈥攖丑别苍 an unincorporated area of the Central Okanagan Regional District. As a regional system, it grew again in 1992 to include Lake Country and Peachland.
The 40th anniversary comes a little over a month after the 蝉测蝉迟别尘鈥檚 first shutdown due to a labour dispute was settled. The two-week strike by drivers was settled after the city brought the union representing the drivers and the company that operates the system under contract to B.C. Transit together, breaking an impasse that had stalled negotiations.
Despite that, city officials are looking to trans颈迟鈥檚 future with optimism.
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The trivia questions will be posted on the 颁颈迟测鈥檚 Facebook page www.facebook.com/City of 麻豆AV. All of the answers to the transit trivia questions can be found on an interactive transit timeline that can be found at www.kelownaregionaltransittimeline.ca.
The timeline outlines the various service and infrastructure milestones of the system over the past 40 years.
鈥淲别鈥檒濒 be giving away transit-related prizes, as well as hosting transit open houses so that people can learn about the many pass programs, discounts and options available to 迟丑别尘,鈥� said Dombrowsky.
