Tag: Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Connect Transit – used buses

By: Diane Benjamin I rarely FOIA anything I don’t know exists. A FOIA to Connect Transit didn’t reveal any bus purchases from Champaign. The January payments did: PDF page 17 https://connect-transit.com/file/3390/02%2025%202025_BoT%20Meeting%20Packet.pdf I do know the failure of the electric buses forced Connect to pull old buses out of mothballs. The bus list doesn’t show any […]

Written by Diane Benjamin - editor

Champaign-Urbana Bus system (oops)

By:  Diane Benjamin The number of riders in Champaign-Urbana has been declining since 2012 – see PDF page 17   https://www.cumtd.com/about-us/getfile/?fileid=7773 Below is the March snapshot – note they have MANY more riders than Bloomington-Normal, but note who they are: Taxpayers pay for the University of Illinois, then U of I gives some of that […]