Free bus rides offered in Merced for the holiday season

MERCED, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Merced's The Bus volition beryllium offering escaped rides to each passengers until the extremity of the twelvemonth connected each its routes and services, the Merced County Association of Governments announced.

The funds for the escaped rides volition travel from the Low Carbon Operations Program, which volition let passengers to bask unlimited proscription astatine nary outgo during the vacation season.

Residents successful Merced are not the lone ones who volition payment from escaped rides; additionally, officials accidental the Stanislaus Regional Transit Authority and Turlock Transit volition beryllium providing escaped rides during the period of December, allowing residents wrong some Stanislaus and Merced counties to question seamlessly wrong the region.

“We anticipation that residents volition instrumentality this accidental to effort the assorted services and routes offered by The Bus and take to support riding into the New Year arsenic a regular mode of transportation," said Serenity Anderson, manager of the Transit Joint Powers Authority of Merced County, which operates The Bus.

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