Joint resolution asks for interim public transportation study into trains, buses, air traffic

A joint resolution sitting in the committee, Senate Joint Resolution 19, brought by Sen. Andrea Olsen, D-Missoula, is asking for an interim study into the issue of public transportation. It specifically asks to look at passenger rail, passenger air, public transit, and passenger bus services and looks to improve them.

It also is trying to consider underserved populations and ways to improve access for them.

“What I really want to get out of this study is the opportunity for us all to look at public transportation as true infrastructure that does so much for Montana,” Olsen said in an interview with the Daily Montanan. “I want people to see the connections between rural prosperity and the infrastructure that we make happen, like we used to make happen.” Read more.