Bus Program working 11/07/10 9:45pm TDH
Salinas transit officials are reporting success, with a bus program recently created to serve students at Monterey’s Defense Language Institute. The program is funded by the Department of Defense, and allows faculty and students to apply for free Monterey-Salinas Transit bus passes. Since its inception in July, 2009, M.S.T. officials reported on Friday, that the program has helped reduce carbon emissions by 2.9 million pounds, and saved 1.4-million dollars’ worth of gasoline. Almost 13-hundred of the school’s 85-hundred students and staff utilize the program, which has allowed M.S.T. officials to add routes and additional drivers. Officials are planning to expand the service to serve Fort Hunter-Liggett, in South Monterey County, beginning in January.