by Associated Press Published: December 22,2010
Tags: FREX, transit
Front Range Express bus service between Denver and Colorado Springs will continue through 2011.
City Council approved the funding for FREX this month.
FREX is funded by Pikes Peak Rural Transportation Authority and state money and advertising and fare revenue.
About 350 people use the bus system every day.
FREX is operated by the City of Colorado Springs, Transit [...] [...]
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Commuter bus service between Colorado Springs and Denver will continue for at least the rest of the year.
FrontRange Express, or FREX, recently sold nine surplus buses for $1.4 million to raise money to keep service running.
The Colorado Department of Transportation agreed to put its portion of proceeds toward operating FREX [...] [...]
In a bit of good news for commuters, the city has succeeded in selling nine surplus FREX buses to the York County Transportation Authority in Pennsylvania for a total of $1.44 million, an average of $160,000 per bus.
The next step is up to City Council, who will decided Feb. 9 whether local proceeds from the sale [...] [...]