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Come visit us at the new Transit Center at 42 Clark
Street. You can get bus schedules, buy discounted tickets,
or read
the newspaper while you wait in our spacious lobby. Although
the Transit Center is our main transfer point, we still
make regular stops at Penn and Liberty and the Market Street
Plaza.
New Shared-Ride Buses
The Transit Authority added two new shared-ride buses
to our fleet. They are both fourteen passenger, wheelchair
accessible, small transit buses. The purchase was made possible
to a grant through the Persons with Disabilities Program.
New Buses
As of June 2009 the Transit Authority has put its fleet
of well worn buses out to pasture. New to Warren County
is a fleet of Gillig Low Floor Buses. These buses are made
in the USA and have proven to be some of the very best workhorses
available for cities large and small.
With seating for 30, the low floor design means easier
access for wheel chairs and folks for whom stairs are difficult.
For years, Gillig has been a prominent school bus manufacturer
in California. The company began as a wagon maker in 1890
in San Francisco. In 1937 the company moved their operations
across the bay to Hayward, California. In 1980, Gillig dropped
their school line and began marketing transit buses. The
design of the Phantom, their first transit model, was based
on their school bus design that was introduced in the 1970s.
Gillig has become a very successful player in the US transit
bus market. The Phantom is one of the most common models
found in both city transit and shuttle fleets. In the late
1990s, the Gillig low floor model known as the Advantage
was introduced. Following in footsteps of the Phantom, the
Advantage is becoming a popular model in its own right
Take a look at our new buses.
TAWC: New rides, new routes, new look
Read the article from
the Warren Times Observer 5/27/2009.
New Bike Racks
New to the Transit Authority is the Bike rack on the
front of the buses. The passenger will be responsible to
load their own bikes on the rack. The passengers must visit
the TAWC office to get certified to load their bikes. A
certificate will be provided to all passengers after they
have completed the 10 minute training on the bike rack.
PwD Program
TAWC is now accepting applications for the Persons with
Disabilities (PwD) Program. The PwD program is available
for qualified persons living outside the fixed-route system
with a disability defined by the Americans with Disabilities
Act. To better serve people with disabilities living in
rural areas TAWC is providing discounted shared-ride services
for eligible residents in all of Warren County.
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