Green Bay Metro recent cuts to bus schedule on two routes worry riders | Green Bay Press-Gazette

Judge Marc Hammer worries that participants in Brown County’s Drug Court will lose the ability to keep steady employment, attend counseling sessions and, ultimately, regain their driver’s licenses.

Heidi Sherman fears she — and others with vision issues who rely on Metro Transit buses to get from home to work — will have more of their days eaten up catching the one bus an hour that serves the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus, where she teaches. She also fears that the cut from two buses per hour to one will weaken connections she has made with others who use the bus service.

Daniel Patz is concerned he’ll have to spend more of his day tracking down rides, standing at snowy bus stops or becoming more reliant on Green Bay Metro’s “microtransit” service, which could overburden that service and potentially price out riders who can least afford the cost or the schedule uncertainty.

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