LA Swift, the bus service shuttling hurricane-displaced citizens who live in Baton Rouge and are working or looking for jobs in New Orleans, will make its last run Nov. 30 unless the state can find at least $8 million to keep it running, state transportation department officials said Monday.

Mark Lambert, chief spokesman for the Department of Transportation and Development, said his agency received word Friday from Jim Stark, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Louisiana Transitional Recovery Office, that federal financing for the service will not be renewed.

The bus shuttle has been in service since Halloween 2005 and has carried more than 200,000 riders in the past year. Transportation department will appeal to FEMA to reconsider Stark's decision, Lambert said.

Meanwhile, the department also will ask the Louisiana Recovery Authority, the state's chief agency overseeing rebuilding of the hurricane-hit parishes, to find $8 million to $9 million to keep the bus service running for another 18 months.

The shuttle provides transportation for 900 to 1,000 riders each day, he said, and its ridership has grown by about 7 percent a month since its inception a year ago. "It is more of a jobs program than a transportation program," Lambert said.

The transportation department also will ask the authority to consider financing a commuter rail service between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with possibly four intermediate stops, including the Louis Armstrong International Airport, Lambert said.