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Vol. 7 • Issue 49
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Thursday, December 6 • 2012
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Tourism Rossland had two big recent announcements, both relating to public transportation and skiing. The first of the two was a guaranteed bus from Spokane airport to Your Horoscope For the Week and Nelson, the secwithRossland Michael O’Connor inside ond is an in town shuttle that Horoscope the West Kootenay Advertiser supplements the BC Transit For the Week RosslandNews_Dec6to Jan10.pdf route.11/19/2012 3:59:01 PM with Michael O’Connor
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Deanne Stevens from Tourism Rossland said that with the resort municipality funding, Tourism Rossland has been able to leverage a small amount of money to make a lot more money. “We partnered with Whitewater and Nelson Kootenay Lake DMO (destination marketing organization),” she said. Stevens said one of the big problems was that the company needed four people on
the bus to break even, so there were times when it couldn’t run and meet that goal, which meant that the bus was not guaranteed. “What we’ve done is we’re basically buying the empty seats so that we can guarantee that even if one person books on that bus it will still go,” she said. The Spokane-Red-Whitewater bus will run four days a week - Monday, Thursday, Fri-
day and Sunday. The route begins in Nelson, stops in Rossland, then heads to Spokane and then comes back up the same way. And it starts next weekend. “It’s not a perfect solution yet, but we’re trying to build capacity on these lines so that these businesses can make enough money that they are working on their own.” The in town shuttle is the other announcement. “This is
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one we have just put together. Stevens said she had studied the transit issues of Rossland and found some interesting things. She hoped to find out what the actual issues were with the in town shuttle. “We noticed very quickly that we have a couple really great opportunities,” she said. “The first is the BC Transit bus. It actually goes 54 per cent of the days that Red is See City on P. 3