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A Central Bucks County bus service company will take over operations of the shuttle bus route that transports people from the county parking garage in Doylestown to the Justice Center.
Last month, the Bucks County Commissioners approved a $5,000 one-year deal with Bucks County Transport to provide morning and afternoon shuttle service from the parking garage to the Justice Center. The service will be turned over from the county to the Bucks County Transport starting Thursday, a county official said.
The shuttle service will run between 7 a.m. and 10 a.m. and again starting at 3:3o p.m. until 5:30 p.m. during the work week. The shuttle will pick up and drop off riders roughly every 10 minutes, county spokesman Chris Edwards said.
In addition to the shuttle, the Doylestown DART bus line, which is operated by Bucks County Transport, will add the Justice Center to its Doylestown route between 10 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on weekdays.
The county ran their shuttle service in the morning and afternoon between the parking garage, courthouse and more recently the new justice center. The shuttle was started in 2010 to help those who are handicapped or have trouble walking the distance travel between the parking garage and the central portion of Doylestown. In 2015, the county estimated that the shuttle cost them about $30,000 per year.
When the county tried to end the shuttle in 2015, a disabled woman who works in the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office filed Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint claiming she would have trouble getting to work without the shuttle. Shortly after, the county scraped a plan to end the shuttle se
