Where There’s a Will – There’s a Way: Improving Ohio’s Roads, Bridges, and Public Transit Infrastructure By Raymond Jurkowski, Laketran General Manager | Tuesday, March 24, 2015  Fact: the nation’s infrastructure is crumbling before our very eyes without any meaningful solutions coming from Washington or Columbus. There have been so many studies over the years describing our […]

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Lake County, OH – At Laketran’s Board of Trustees meeting on Monday, March 23, 2015, Sonja M. Maier of Mentor was sworn-in for a three year term as Trustee after being appointed by Lake County Commissioners.   Maier is a retired educator from Mentor Public Schools, where she taught elementary age students and students with […]

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By John Arthur Hutchison, The News-Herald | Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Laketran continues to work on technology upgrades aimed to help riders plan their trips and to improve the transit agency’s overall operation. Several types of hardware upgrades have been implemented recently, including electronic fareboxes, a new radio communication system, GPS/automatic vehicle locators, mobile data terminals […]

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By John Arthur Hutchison, The News-Herald | Posted:  Thursday, January 29, 2015 Laketran has been allocated $3,477,425 in federal funding from 2016 through 2020 through the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency to help replace Dial-a-Ride and Commuter Express buses. However, the county transit agency said the funding would be about $7,650,335 short of what is anticipated […]

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By John Arthur Hutchinson, The News-Herald | Posted 1/27/15 Lower fuel costs have brought some additional good news for people who want to use Laketran. Because of an estimated $581,000 savings of fuel costs in 2015, Laketran trustees voted at a meeting Jan. 26 to restore the county transit agency’s Saturday fixed route services starting May 2 […]

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