Approximately a year ago we implemented the yourwashington.org website. This site collects ideas from our community and allows citizens to vote on what is most important to them. Over the past few months the highest vote-getter was for the city to look into having St. George expand the Suntran bus service into our community.The idea of expanding bus service to Washington has been talked about for some time. The Washington City Council has conducted two surveys with our citizens to determine an interest to ride and to pay for such a service. We are showing greater interest in the using of a bus service and we think this interest will only grow. One of the challenges we face however is not finding an interest to ride a bus but rather an interest to pay for bus services. The current Suntran system, in St. George, is provided at a fairly high subsidy by the taxpayers. Because of this, and other reasons, this decision is not just a simple one by the Council.
The Council has heard your voice of interest in this issue however and would like to pursue these discussions more fully. Because this topic received so much attention from citizens in our community, we are taking it off the yourwashington.org site and creating a separate web page just for the Suntran discussion. This will be a place that anyone interested can view and stay on top of how this topic is progressing. We will let you know shortly, where you can access this webpage, so stay tuned.
