North Bay Council has given approval for the city to put in a funding request for enhanced cleaning on North Bay Transit vehicles.

Chair of Infrastructure and Operations Councillor Chris Mayne says there’s a Municipal Transit Enhanced Cleaning program and the province is currently receiving applications.

“This is a new fund specifically directed at recovering costs for cleaning and staff time to do that work. Overall, the city is expected to benefit from this $15 million fund by about $37,000,” he says.

Mayne says they clean vehicles three times a day to keep them safe to board and that impacts the buses which are taken off the road to be cleaned.

He says each time a bus has to be cleaned it’s not serving the public.

“The province has recognized that and dedicated more support to 110 municipalities and we’re one of those,” Mayne says.

(file photo by station staff)

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