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Pullman Shuttle
System "Piggy Backing" with California Transit Authority
By Art Harvath, HNN Correspondent
Recently the public and private developers of Pullman Square in downtown
Huntington appeared before the West Virginia Economic Development Grant
Committee to ask for an additional $10.6 million in grant funds.
During the presentation Vickie Shaffer, general manager of The Transit
Authority, told the board that the TTA was “piggy backing” with
the Santa Clara County Bus System in California to buy the buses for the
Shuttle Bus Service.
However, Friday assistant general manager Paul Davis told HNN that the
TTA is piggy backing with the Central Contra Costa Transit Authority in
California.
Scott Mitchell, of the CCCTA confirmed that the TTA is buying six 30 foot
buses and three 35 foot buses from them.
In the grant to the Federal Transit Administration, TTA states that the
shuttle buses will be smaller, low floor, less than 30 foot buses. The
grant also states that the buses will be unique so that they will be easily
identifiable to the community, and that the buses need to be different
from the regular route buses so they will not be confused with the regular
route buses.
According the grant application to the FTA, TTA’s fleet consists
of twenty one (21) 30 foot buses, eight (8) 35 foot buses, two trolleys
and ten para transit ADA vans.
