CityLink getting out of the transportation business

? /Journal Star/: CityLink easing out of nursing homes

/Residents of six area nursing homes who lack their own means of
transportation could be without the option of public paratransit
service after a recent CityLink decision not to renew contracts with
the facilities.

CityLift, the paratransit arm of CityLink, continues to provide
rides for the senior care centers under the same terms of the
expired contracts, which are extended on a month-to-month basis,
leaving the door open for the provider to back out at any time.

“Right this second, it hasn’t” impacted us, said OSF St. Clare Home
administrator Carolyn Conover. “Until we are absolutely for sure
that they are not going to be doing this, then we’ll look at our
other options.”

CityLift buses make almost daily trips to St. Clare Home to take
residents to doctors’ appointments, health clubs or social
activities. The six homes serviced by CityLift generated 436 one-way
trips during the month of March./

No word on whether CityLink — formerly knows as the Greater Peoria Mass
Transit District — is having any success with its day care facility in
the heart of downtown Peoria.

I wish the project well.

Will any luck, within a few years, Peoria’s public transportation system
will be completely out of the public transportation business.