Laketran will join with public transportation systems nationwide to participate in the 7th annual National Dump the Pump Day on Thursday, June 21. The slogan of this year’s National Dump the Pump Day is “Dump the Pump. Save Money. Ride Transit.” Sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) the 2012 National Dump the Pump […]
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Laketran Helps Riders’ Bike to Work Experience
Chris Twarogowski, a mechanical engineer of Mentor, has been biking to work since 2005. “When gas spiked in 2005, I sold my 10-mpg SUV and bought a bicycle,” explains Twarogowski of his decision to transition from driving a car to a bicycle. At the time Twarogowski was working in Willoughby and biked about 12 miles […]
Innovation Helps Laketran With 2012 Budget
By Brandon Baker, News-Herald A line of Laketran buses sat behind the agency’s Painesville Township headquarters Monday morning, but each vehicle was missing a key element. Their scratched-off logos were representative of both the ongoing eBay auctions Laketran has been conducting and the lengths officials have gone to raise money for the fiscally recovering transit […]
Laketran Receives Federal, State and Local Accolades for Financial Management
Lake County, OH — Laketran has received recognition at the local, state and federal levels for suburb fiscal management of the county transit agency. Locally, Laketran received its fifteenth consecutive clean audit. Laketran received an “unqualified opinion”, the highest possible ranking given for this type of audit, from a third party auditor James G. Zupka, […]
Laketran Extends Hours for Holiday Season
On Monday, October 24, 2011, Laketran’s Board of Trustees voted to temporarily restore weeknight and Saturday in-county fixed route and Dial-a-Ride service for the holiday shopping season. The additional service will operate from Monday, November 14, 2011 through Saturday, January 14, 2012. The extended hours temporarily restore services back to the levels Laketran operated before […]
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