Blackfalds BOLT 2.0 transit service showing promise for increased ridership: Officials
Officials with the Town of Blackfalds are seeing encouraging signs regarding the community’s new BOLT 2.0 transit service.
Despite challenging circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic over the past several months, town officials say the new BOLT 2.0 on-demand digital community commuter service and its new service model has been working well.
The new service provider, application, schedule, ticket procurement and service stop maps, are all acknowledged as being successful so far, according to town officials.
On Tuesday, council was informed of 195 passengers utilizing BOLT 2.0 last month and according to a Monthly Metric Summaries Report, 183 rides were completed in May, with 26 per cent of them shared, and an average shared fare occupancy of 2.2.