Tanger Outlet customers and employees will soon be seeing the South Strabane Township shopping complexs first and only public transit stop. <\/p>\n
The Washington County Transportation Authority plans to add the stop to all but its earliest morning runs beginning Wednesday. <\/p>\n
The stop will be in the parking lot adjacent to the walkway to the Brooks Brothers and Calvin Klein stores. <\/p>\n
Its good news, I think, said Sheila Gombita, executive director of the Washington County transportation agency. <\/p>\n
The first stop at Tanger Outlets on the McDonald-Canonsburg trip to Washington will be at 9:15 a.m., and approximately every 90 minutes thereafter, with the last stop on that run at 4:45 p.m. <\/p>\n
The Washington to Canonsburg-McDonald run will make its first stop at Tanger Outlets at 10:35 a.m., with its last Tanger stop at 6:05 p.m. <\/p>\n
Wednesday also marks the beginning of the third and final year of the Freedom Line pilot program, which has a variety of funding sources. <\/p>\n
Decisions are to be made within the next four to five months as to where were going to go with it. We plan to try and look for a local match. Ride it now, and that way it will continue, Gombita said. <\/p>\n
The stop at the shopping complex, which opened in August 2008, came about through requests from both Tanger employees and people who wanted to take the bus to shop there. <\/p>\n
With the addition of Tanger Outlets comes the subtraction of a stop at the Meadowbrook housing plan in North Strabane Township, due to lack of ridership. <\/p>\n
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