Strait Area Transit reaches into Victoria County with route to Baddeck
Students best customers so far for new route run by Port Hawkesbury-based transit system
Strait Area Transit has now extended its service into Victoria County.
The Port Hawkesbury-based co-operative started a Baddeck route last month. But the transit system will hold an official launch date this Wednesday to advertise the new route and bus.
General manager and supervising driver, Dwayne MacDonald said the bus service is used mostly by people coming and going to the two Nova Scotia Community College campuses.
"Now there are students from Waycobah heading to the NSCC in Wagmatcook," MacDonald said. "Actually we took our first one today from NSCC to Port Hawkesbury back to Baddeck."
Along with passengers, the bus also transports parcels. That's proving timely for the publisher of the Victoria Standard newspaper.
Jim Morrow can now get his biweekly paper delivered to Baddeck from the printer in New Glasgow.
"It saves a little fuel and rubber for us," he said.
Morrow had to drive 40 kilometres to Whycocomagh to pick up his papers after Maritime Bus lost its agent in Baddeck.
He is very happy not to have to make the drive.
"This will be our third issue coming out tomorrow, we'll be picking them up in Baddeck rather than in Whycocomagh."