HUGE stuff out of the #massdot #rtig (regional transit innovation grant)!!!

- #bat microtransit service hours extended, sounds like may also cover for brockton fixed routes late night
- $4 million to #brta / #frta / #pvta to create a "commuter bus network"
- #cata gets to bring back their funny cape ann works route
- cata also gets to add microtransit in rockport weekends/holidays, which seems like a terrible idea with summer demand
- frta access expansion to shutesbury

yet again out of the blue: the #frta is adding saturday *and* sunday service to *all* of its fixed routes starting tomorrow! the frequencies admittedly suck, with service every two hours on the 20/21 loop in greenfield, and two to three trips a day on the other, mostly regional routes

previously, the only weekend service available was the frta access #microtransit, which also didn't exist prior to around 2019

https://frta.org