FARGO – After a couple of weeks of consideration, changes may be coming to MATBUS.
The City of Fargo Transit Office will present their recommendations to the Fargo City Commission on Monday. This comes weeks after a public hearing in which many concerns regarding possible changes to Transit were heard.
“There have been continuing discussions between the Transit Joint Powers Agreement participating jurisdictions,” a letter from Transit Director Julie Bommelman said.
Among the originally proposed changes were reduction of frequency for routes 13 and 14, increasing Route 15 to 90 minutes, eliminating route 16, reducing route 18 by 30 minutes and eliminating the south portion, reducing route 20 by 30 minutes, moving the transfer point to Walmart’s bus shelter from the West Acres Transit Hub, eliminating the industrial park on-demand service and eliminating Sunday’s Paratransit services. These were all discussed by the MATBUS Coordination Committee.
While the committee didn’t support all of the above recommendations, they did support elimination of route 16 and the industrial park on-demand service, and realignment of routes 14 and 15.
The Fargo City Commission will discuss the proposed changes as part of their regular meeting.
