GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – While temperatures caused some local bus companies to close, Green Bay Metro decided to stay open and provide free rides to warming shelters across the area.
Transit Director Patty Kiewiz said because of the extreme conditions they wanted to make sure their passengers are getting to their destinations safely, so this week they’ve been taking extra steps to make sure that happens.
Not only are they providing rides to all of the Green Bay warming shelters, Kiewiz tells FOX 11 drivers are being encouraged to pull over and offer rides to anyone they see walking.
“Typically in public transit, you are a pedestrian before you get on the bus and after you get on the bus, so it’s important that people are dressing warm and making that extra time to travel. We rather have people wait on the bus to make their connections instead of stops.”
Those relying on the bus can also use the company’s mobile app that shows all of the bus routes in real time, to avoid waiting outside for long periods of time.
