City Contracts with LCT for Two Days of Bus Service/title>    <link href="../ocs_warm.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body> <center> <div id="overlord"> <div id="header"> <a href="../index.html"><img src="../images/ocs_header.gif" width="760" height="194" hspace="0" vspace="0" border="0"></a> </div> <div id="body_text">  <h1>City Contracts with LCT for Two Days of Bus Service</h1> <p>June 24, 2010 -- Oberlin residents deprived of bus service since Lorain County Transit cut service to Oberlin earlier this year will see limited service return for the summer.</p> <p>City manager Eric Norenberg said he has worked out an arrangement with LCT to provide a pilot "Oberlin Connector" transit service for the summer. The service would run from 9 am to 3 pm two days per week for 13 weeks, starting July 5.</p> <p>Norenberg said when LCT ended service to Oberlin in January, concerned citizens, pastors, civic leaders, and city staff began to meet to determine the best way to provide transportation to those who relied on LCT. He said they considered purchasing a bus from LCT and operating it.</p> <p>"The bus they offered had well over 100,000 miles on it," Norenberg said. "And although they offered it at a great price, our mechanical staff who looked at it didn't feel comfortable having our residents ride on it."</p> <p>He said a survey was conducted to determine transit service needs in Oberlin. As a result of the survey, a memorandum of understanding was negotiated with LCT to provide the Oberlin Connector service for a three-month trial. </p> <p>Under the agreement, LCT's contractor, First Transit, will take and dispatch calls for Oberlin residents requiring service. Passengers will pay the same one-way fare LCT riders pay in Lorain and Elyria, where service continues.</p> <p>Those fares are $2.20 for adults, and $1.10 for senior citizens, persons with disabilities, and children ages 3 to 12. All-day passes may be purchased for $5 on the bus. </p> <p>Lorain Metropolitan Housing Authority tenants and Oberlin residents who qualify for low-income will pay a reduced fare of $1.10. In order to qualify for the reduced fare the passenger will have to present an ID card provided by Oberlin Community Services.</p> <p>The city will pay $40 per hour for the service, minus farebox revenue collected. The city will pay for sic hours of service, and 30 minutes travel time each way from the transit center in Elyria, on Mondays and Thursdays.</p> <p>"Revenue from the city, including fares paid, will provide Lorain County with the local matching funds to enable LCT to receive federal funds to support this service," Norenberg said. "There will be no county general fund dollars used for this service."</p> <p>He said LMHA and OCS will each pay $2,000 for the service to defray the city's cost. The expected maximum cost to the city will be $3,280, to be charged to city council's temporary contractuals fund.</p> <p>Council member Elizabeth Meadows asked what provisions would be made in instances a holiday fell on Monday. Norenberg said that had already been addressed in the memorandum of understanding.</p> <p>"In the one instance when that would occur during this trial--Labor Day--the service will operate on the Tuesday following," Norenberg said.</p> <p>The service will end Sept. 30. 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