The co-chair of the Huron Shores Transit Initiative says they've received 660 online responses for a transportation survey.
Glen Baillie says the responses are mainly from the areas in their coverage area where they expected the greatest interest, but they don't have the hard copies of their transportation survey entered yet.
Baillie says the surveys confirmed what they expected would be reasons for wanting a system -- starting with employment -- but also visiting, shopping, medical, education, even visiting funeral homes.
Baillie says the problem they're hoping to address is that of smaller groups like social services or health care that don't have enough demand within their specific sector.
Their goal is to bring together all of those smaller groups with the creation of a universal, publicly accessible transit system that would cover Lambton Shores, North Middlesex, Grand Bend, South Huron and part of Bluewater.
Baillie adds they'll start approaching various municipal councils for support within the next few weeks.
He explains, "We've got people who want to travel in and around all of the communities for all of the different reasons that we expected... being visiting, shopping, medical, school, even visiting funeral homes. So what we're doing is going across all of the different communities, with all of the different reasons and trying to get in place a universal, publicly accessible, transit system."
