Transit system records high numbers in first month

Tim Leeds Havre Daily News [email protected]@havredailynews.com

The director of the newly formed North Central Montana Transit system said, in its first month of operation, the system's buses have transported far more passengers than he, or the initial study done about creating public transportation, expected. “Our ridership numbers are big,” Director Jim Lyons said during a meeting of the system's board Tuesday. “It's serving the population, and the folks, I think, who were targeted by the initial study.” Riders of the transit system, which started operation Aug. 24, say they ar...