No. 008, October 2004






Park 'N' Ride to see the St. John's Maple Leafs With another AHL season underway we'd like to remind customers that our Park 'N' Ride service is available for all St. John's Maple Leaf games at Mile One Stadium.  Service runs from Confederation Building and Bowring Park beginning one hour before game time and return shuttles are available immediately following the game.  The fare is $2.00 return and exact change is required as our Drivers do not carry change.  A season pass is available for purchase in our e-store.  For more details about Park 'N' Ride service, please click on Metrobus Dot Com.

Metrobus/HITS 99.1 Traffic Watch continues A reminder to customers to tune in to 99.1 HITS-FM each weekday morning at 7:58 to get up-to-the-minute information about service conditions.  The latest report can be downloaded from our website www.metrobus.com - just look for the 'HITS 99.1 FM' logo.  With winter weather approaching, be sure to tune in or log on each morning before heading for your bus stop.

Food Drive a huge success Our fifteenth annual Thanksgiving Food Drive, in partnership with the VOCM Cares Foundation, was one of the best ever.  All food donations were delivered to the Community Food Sharing Association on Friday, October 8th.  A special thanks to all of our customers who participated in this year's Food Drive.

Remembrance Day service Customers are advised that on Remembrance Day, Thursday, November 11th, we will be operating on a regular Sunday schedule.

Customer's Corner  A customer writes: Just wanted to let you know that I'm impressed with the new Ride Guide system and how easy it is to use. Two thumbs up!

Metrobus responds: Glad to hear from you. The new TimeTrack-equipped version of Ride Guide is simply a better system. It will take a bit of getting used to, but we think most callers will appreciate it a little more compared to the old system. The new Ride Guide also has additional line capacity which will cut down on the number of busy signals customers receive when attempting to call for information on stormy days; let's hope we don't have to test that too often this winter!

Thanks for being a customer.