{"id":189626,"date":"2023-10-26T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T18:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=189626"},"modified":"2023-11-01T14:10:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T18:10:24","slug":"northumberland-county-making-changes-to-commuter-connect-as-pilot-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/northumberland-county-making-changes-to-commuter-connect-as-pilot-ends\/","title":{"rendered":"Northumberland County making changes to Commuter Connect as pilot ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Only one route will continue for Commuter Connect Northumberland as the pilot project concludes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Commuter Connect was launched in September 2022 with lines connecting Northumberland communities as well as from Cobourg and Port Hope to the Oshawa GO station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At a recent Northumberland County council meeting, the recommended motion was to discontinue the public transportation service in its entirety. Council ultimately amended that motion, deciding the Durham line was essential and opted to extend it for three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The inter-county Northumberland line, which served travel between Cobourg, Colborne, Brighton and Campbellford, will end Nov. 30 due to low ridership and revenue. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the one-year pilot project, 513 one-way rider credits were purchased for the Northumberland line compared to 3,055 for the Durham line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dan Borowec, the county\u2019s director of economic development, planning and strategic initiatives, said it\u2019s a costly enterprise which is no different than in any municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI think personally council made a good decision to try and find middle ground for existing transportation requirements,\u201d Borowec said, adding the project stemmed from the local loss of the VIA Rail 651 morning commuter train.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Listen to more comments from Dan Borowec below:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one route will continue for Commuter Connect Northumberland as the pilot project concludes. Commuter Connect was launched in September 2022 with lines connecting Northumberland communities as well as from Cobourg and Port Hope to the Oshawa GO station. At a recent Northumberland County council meeting, the recommended motion was to discontinue the public transportation&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":189630,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,225,2602],"tags":[25834,31917,25993,26123,3277],"radio":[25167],"origine":[267,25406,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191421,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189626\/revisions\/191421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189626"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=189626"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=189626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}