NEW LONDON, Conn (WTNH) — Several individuals line up on the high of the hour to hop on a bus to get to their vacation spot inside and outdoors the town of New London.
A brand new pilot program known as NL SmartRide began Monday, permitting individuals to name from their houses to get a small, microbus to select them up from house and convey them to a vacation spot inside the metropolis.
It’s an on-demand public transportation service just like ride-hailing methods like Uber and Lyft. All customers want is an app on their cellphone known as Spare Rider, which is able to enable them to name for the bus and get a journey proper to the place they wish to go inside the metropolis of New London.
“If I go shopping, like to go to ShopRite, I take Uber, or I take the bus,” New London Ada Santos of New London stated. “It takes like an hour before I get on the bus to get back home, but if I can do that [use SmartRide], I would get home faster. I would love to try that.”
“We wanted to try to develop a public transit system within the city that people would use,” Mayor Michael Passero stated.
Local leaders need extra individuals to climb on board who don’t essentially want public transportation however select to make use of it due to this service.
News 8’s Tina Detelj may have extra on this story Monday evening on News 8 at 5.