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Regina's "Telebus" system, begun as an experiment six months ago, has proven to be a remarkable success. It is not only convenient for the 18,000 residents in the 3-sq.-mi. district now served by Telebuses but also financially beneficial for the city transit system, which needs more passengers to cut its deficit. During a particularly bitter cold snap early in January, the city's eleven 42-passenger Telebuses responded to an average of 2,000 calls per day. Cost of the service: 35?, only a dime more than the standard fare...
...morning commuters, the transit system guarantees that a Telebus will arrive within 15 minutes after a call. The bus quickly collects a full load of south-side passengers and drops them off at a comfortable waiting room, where regular buses pick them up for the ride to Regina's downtown area. In the evening, the Telebuses pick up returning workers at the waiting rooms and deposit them at their doorsteps...
...send three-and four-year-old children (with name and address tags pinned on) on short bus hops to nurseries and day-care centers. Partygoers are enthusiastic about a suggestion that they avoid Regina's stiff drunk-driving penalties by leaving their cars home and taking the Telebus. But the current schedule offers no encouragement to really dedicated drinkers: the last Telebus pickup...
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