Encouraging your children to take the bus is a good initiative. In our case we are fortunate to have the bus stop right across from our Queen Street East house and the bus drops off the kids at Jacob Hespeler Secondary School. The Grand River Transit (GRT) even encourages students to take transit by giving them the Reduced Monthly Pass for $50.00 instead of the normal rate of $60. Sounds too good to be true……….your right.
GRT has misleading advertising regarding the availability of Reduced Monthly Passes for students. Right across the street from Jacob Hespeler Secondary School is the Zehrs that sells the monthly passes. Two of the last three times we have tried to buy the pass we were told they are sold out of the Reduced Monthly Passes for $50.00 and only the Regular Priced Passes were available for $60.00. Both times people selling the passes stated that there are only limited quantities of the Reduced Monthly Passes available.
So we checked out the GRT website . It does not state anything about limited quantities of reduced monthly passes. Come on GRT get your act together and print enough passes to honour your commitment to the taxpayers of this region.
Zehrs or Shoppers have a limited supply, you’d have to go to the bus terminal, and they are guaranteed to have the passes.