OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to an article regarding potential changes to Orillia Transit, published Feb. 14.
Orillia Transit seems to find costs escalating and is wondering how to combat the rising costs.
I have noticed many times that those big buses are almost always travelling with only three or four people in them. There may be times when there are more, but I have never seen it.
How about trading most of them in for small vans that hold 10 or 12 people? Surely, they could be operated at a more reduced cost and probably considerably less fuel.
Keep a couple of the larger buses for high-volume times.
Seems like a good idea to me, but maybe I don’t have all the facts.
Gerry Shelswell
Oro-Medonte
