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.
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