Bozeman, Montana Climate
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3/8/2008
Planning for the Bozeman/Belgrade/Gallatin Valley bus system began in 2003. The idea and initial analysis for a regional bus system began with a 1986 study done by the Montana State Unviversity College of Engineering.
By 2001, the Greater Bozeman Area Transit Development Plan was instituted, which was the foundational groundwork for planning the system; the Plan also supplied the pertinent data necessary to request funding for a transit system from the U.S. Federal Government.
Next came a Transit Task Force, started by the City of Bozeman. The Task Force studied existing Montana and northern Rocky Mountain transit systems. From this was derived a Feasibility Report: Bozeman Area Transit.
After other studies both the City of Bozeman and City of Belgrade and Gallatin County cretated the Public Transportation Stakeholders Advisory Board, investing $50,000 in an LSC Transportation Consultants study.
From this study the board had the nascent information necessary to initiate a Bozeman transit system with the resources at hand, which included using existing busses until the new busses arrived. The busses are here; the Streamline Bus System is very successful andis expanding into the outlying region as funds and the need arises.
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