Public transit users will be riding a little easier with more buses and more routes following a gas-tax funding announcement from the province.

Peterborough MPP Jeff Leal announced $1,482,340 for the city and $66,170 for the county Friday morning at his King St. office, along with Mayor Paul Ayotte and Peterborough County Warden J. Murray Jones.

“This means more buses, more operating dollars and more routes,” Leal said.

There is a need to expand urban transit, Leal said, and that includes new vehicles, new routes and getting more people out of their vehicles.

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From the Peterborough Examiner- May 3, 2010