Chatham-Kent will receive $965,599 through provincial gas tax funding towards the municipality’s transit system.
“The funding … is required to provide the inter-urban routes and to continue with the extended hours service,” said Ann-Marie Millson, the municipality’s manager of linear assets, in an email.
The inter-urban routes take riders from one community in Chatham-Kent to another.
The gas tax money, which is two cents per litre of provincial revenues, is transferred from the Ontario government to municipalities which run a transit system. Each share is based on a formula of 70 per cent ridership and 30 per cent population.
Millson said the municipality had 334,963 riders in 2018, which is broken down as 286,068 urban fares, 18,641 inter-urban fares and 30,254 accessible fares.
Rides were up from 2017, which had 302,681 riders.
The transit system’s total operating budget in 2017 was $2,574,355, with $623,205 coming from fares and the municipality using $865,882 of its $910,120 in gas tax funding, said Millson.
The rest of the funding comes from municipal tax dollars.
Last year, Chatham-Kent received $952,316 in gas tax dollars.
The funding received praise from Chatham-Kent-Leamington MPP Rick Nicholls.
“As a representative of a mixed urban-rural riding, the fact that the share each municipality receives is based on a formula of 70 percent ridership and 30 percent population is wonderful,” he said in a news release. “These funds serve both large and small municipal transit systems.”
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