From today's Free Press:

City hall is planning to offer a steep discount to the Winnipeg Football Club for the fees charged for its charter bus service to events at the Investors Group Field stadium.

The discounted offer came after six months of negotiations when Blue Bombers team officials told the city they were not prepared to pay the full charter transit fees, which sources said cost the team $1.3 million in 2013.

Information provided to councillors at a private seminar earlier this week outlined the city’s offer to the Blue Bombers, which includes:

A discount of 42.3 per cent off of Winnipeg Transit’s charter rate in 2014, rising to 44.7 per cent in 2015.

The discount will cost the city $750,000 for 2014; and $950,000 in 2015.

The discount will only be offered if the province agrees to cover 50 per cent of the discount.

Wade Miller, football team president and CEO, said he spent the past six months negotiating the deal with city hall, adding the new rate is good for the team, its fans and the city.

Miller said he understood the deal will be presented to council at Wednesday meeting.

“We can’t sustain paying $1.1 million to $1.3 million (for transit services) every year,” Miller said. “So we negotiated an agreement with the City of Winnipeg.”

I'm not sure what the $2.55 is, but it's not associated with Park & Ride. From what I was told at the Bomber Store yesterday individual rides to the game via Park & Ride are $5. A ride home is free. $40 gets you a pass (saves you $5 over the course of the season, $10 if we host a playoff game,)

So the $2.55 has NOTHING to do with Park & Ride.

The $2.55 is the regular cost of transit. It just refers to transit users getting to the game. These are not chartered busses by the bombers, just regular transit. It will be up to transit to add busses as they see fit ( I have a feeling the first game or two will be a gong show).

Bombers will cover cost of regular transit ride home.

 

 

Park n ride to sit in a cramped, non air conditioned bus AND pay for this sweet hookup? Thanks but no thanks.. Had my fill of that bull plop last season... Perimeter and then close as possible and walk or shuttle for this guy..

Cramped, sure. If you're 300+ lbs maybe.

$40 a year...enjoy spending that on gas by the 2nd home game.

Last 2/3 of the year the P&R was run perfectly, IMO, so same as usual for this guy.

260 and 6'8 so yea cramped.. Ever tried to walk a few blocks with a numb ass and leg? Not fun my friend..

 

Tough, I know as I had pain walking as well. 

i'll explain, i used to live in ek, still sort of do but...

 

the 2.55 for example would be for me to hop the #11 bus lets say, then i would get a tranfer downtown and hop on to the 60 university bus, this is how i got to school every day. (most days)

 

it's not different for the bombers... 2.55 gets you on a regular transit bus... all you have to pay is 2.55, you can get your transfers cuz unless you live on that side of the city, you are more than likely gonna need to transfer once..

 

the 5$ is for the park and ride, it's my understanding that the 5$ covers just the park and ride.. you pay your 5$ (per car it seems) and you hop on a school bus.

 

Bombers must have got a pretty decent deal there if you only paying 5$ for a car load (which could be 5 or 6 people per car)

 

 

Bombers must have got a pretty decent deal there if you only paying 5$ for a car load (which could be 5 or 6 people per car)

 

BEGINNING WITH THE FIRST REGULAR SEASON GAME ON JUNE 26, there is a $5.00 charge per person collected pre-game at each location as you board the bus, when attending a Bomber game or special event.

 

yup. my mistake there.

 

Don't use park and ride so really was just concentrating on the 2.55 thing.