The Good Shepherd Community Center will soon be a stop on one of NRoute’s three bus routes.
NRoute commissioners discussed putting the center on a route to make it more convenient for the people who use the center’s services to reach it. NRoute executive director Evelyn Bumpers said she had not talked with Good Shepherd executive director Tommy Miller about the proposal.
“The board brought it up as a way to help the people who use the center,” she said, adding she may include Good Shepherd on the system’s Route No. 3, which runs north and south on Clay Street and includes the Medical Associates Clinic on South Frontage Road and the Warren-Yazoo Mental Health facilities on Wisconsin Avenue.
Having Good Shepherd as an NRoute stop would be an advantage for the center, Miller said.
“It will mostly benefit the people who use our clinic, because they won’t have to take a taxi or get a ride from someone to come here. It would also help those people who attend our GED class, because they would not have to get a ride. They’ll have a source for transportation.”
In other action, board:
• Learned the bus system’s trolley will be delivered in the spring. Bumpers said the trolley will run seasonal routes that will include the Vicksburg National Military Park as one of the stops. She said the routes have not been determined.
• Learned the system’s net income for the period from Oct. 1 to Nov. 19 was $52,841, an increase of $12,900.34 over the same period in 2013.
• Learned ridership and fare revenues were both down compared with the same period in fiscal 2014. As of Wednesday, ridership for the first two months of fiscal 2015 totaled 6,211 about 1,690 less than the same period for 2014, which had 7,901 riders over the first two months. Revenue from fares for the first two months of the fiscal year was $15,855.34, which was $3,318.23 less than the same period in fiscal 2014.