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    WI: As Funding Wanes, Bus Routes Connecting Milwaukeeans With Suburban Jobs May Disappear

    April 18, 2018
    Advocacy groups and some Milwaukee residents who work in the suburbs are trying to save two Milwaukee County Transit System bus routes, known as the JobLines.

    Source WUWM 89.7

    Leah Harnack/Mass Transit
    Formally known as Routes 6 and 61, JobLines play a vital role in advancing the region’s economic development by providing thousands of Milwaukee’s central city residents with immediate access to employment opportunities at more than 150 employers in Waukesha and Washington Counties.
    Formally known as Routes 6 and 61, JobLines play a vital role in advancing the region’s economic development by providing thousands of Milwaukee’s central city residents with immediate access to employment opportunities at more than 150 employers in Waukesha and Washington Counties.

    Advocacy groups and some Milwaukee residents who work in the suburbs are trying to save two Milwaukee County Transit System bus routes, known as the JobLines. The funding source for the routes is set to dry up at the end of the year.

    Routes 61 and 6 were created four years ago to take workers from nine urban zip codes to jobs in suburbs and industrial parks. 

    The JobLines routes were created in 2014, as the result of a settlement in a lawsuit filed by MICAH, or Milwaukee Inner City Congregations Allied for Hope, and the Black Health Coalition of Wisconsin.

    Read the complete article at http://wuwm.com/post/funding-wanes-bus-routes-connecting-milwaukeeans-suburban-jobs-may-disappear#stream/0