{"id":6924,"date":"2024-03-14T14:17:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=6924"},"modified":"2024-03-14T14:17:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:17:54","slug":"queens-county-transit-asks-for-funding-boost-from-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/03\/14\/queens-county-transit-asks-for-funding-boost-from-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Queens County Transit asks for funding boost from region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6926\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6926\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6926\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4407-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4407-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4407-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4407-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/IMG_4407-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-6926\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Queens County Transit has asked the Region of Queens for more funding. (Rick Conrad)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens County Transit has asked the Region of Queens for an extra $12,000 in funding for the 2024\/25 fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The region gave the ride service $38,000 last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Queens County Transit launched in 2018. It now has eight vehicles in its fleet, including five accessible vans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2023, they transported 6,729 people over a distance of 218,000 kilometres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alex Doggett, chairman of Queens County Transit, appealed to councillors at their Tuesday meeting for a boost in funding.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He said the service is adding two new vehicles this year to handle increased demand. And with that come extra costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen you\u2019re involved with a community program you don\u2019t want to see it fail. And that is the key thing here that we are working with our board trying to make ends meet and keep it going.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Councillors agreed to add the request to this year\u2019s budget deliberations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:rickconradqccr@gmail.com\">rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queens County Transit has asked the Region of Queens for an extra $12,000 in funding for the 2024\/25 fiscal year. The region gave the ride service $38,000 last year. Queens County Transit launched in 2018. It now has eight vehicles in its fleet, including five accessible vans. In 2023, they transported 6,729 people over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[1887,1245,133,24],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-alex-doggett","tag-budget","tag-queens-county-transit","tag-region-of-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6927,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}