Free - USA - Big Island bus rides free for 3 months
Honolulu,HI,USA -Honolulu Advertiser, by Mike Leidemann -Oct 2, 2005: -- Each day, dozens of Hilo-area residents get up before 4 a.m. and spend two hours on a county bus getting to their jobs across the island in Waikoloa. After work, it's another two-hour ride home. But now there is at least one good thing about the long, draining ride on the Big Island: It's free... In fact, all of the county's 350,000 yearly riders on 12 Hele-On bus routes will be able to travel for free for the next three months... the free bus service will give residents in remote rural areas better access to work, doctor, school and recreation areas, and allow officials to help develop more affordable housing in rural areas served by new bus routes. With more people taking advantage of the free bus service, traffic congestion in some parts of the island also could be eased, officials said... But residents in other areas, including the long run from Hilo to Waikoloa, can easily spend more than $100 a month on the bus...
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