Big Sky Connect, a new on-demand micro transit system, will launch mid-December; buses now run twice as often along the “core corridor” between Town Center and Mountain Village.
Riders will hail vehicles using a smartphone app, Brugmann explained, and Big Sky Connect will use shared rides to consolidate requests during peak times. Riders should not have to wait more than 15 minutes.
“We have smaller vehicles that can more efficiently service not just [bus] stops, but a whole service area. We’ll go door to door, [to] a condo or a person’s home, or anywhere.”
Unlike Uber and Lyft, rides with Big Sky Connect are free. The drivers are not independent contractors working their own schedules, but Downtowner employees, scheduled and paid with regularity.
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