A student transportation system for St. Clair College students in the Leamington area will come to an end at the end of the current term.
Transit Windsor is looking to offer a similar service as a pilot project.
The current system has been operated by the South Essex Community Council for about five years.
According to the Coordinator of Community Services Mark Wybenga, they didn't see any need to continue their service. Adding, it only ran twice a day during the week.
"They [Transit Windsor] are taking the initiative one step further and doing a mid-day run as well as weekend runs, plus their service will be running year round. Therefore it's a great service that is going to be operating more frequently and we didn't foresee the need to be duplicating the service."
Wybenga says besides, their vehicle was a smaller van than Transit Windsor is expected to use as part of the pilot project.
"At the start of the school year we had 14 seats available for purchase on a monthly basis," he says. "Usually we see all seats purchased and often times a wait list at the start of every school year. So at the end of this particular school year we had a total of eight students accessing the service."
At the May 13th meeting of the city's Environment, Transportation and Public Safety Standing Committee, a motion is expected to come forward to run the four-year pilot transit service.
If approved, the new service would run three times a day through the week and twice on Saturday.
Students using the existing service pay $300 a month while the new transit system will be $250 a month and riders will be able to buy single and two-way tickets.