Transit Authority Gets State Funds

{Charleston, West Virginia}...The Kanawha County Commission has approved the use of public funds to allow the Kanawha County Regional Transit Authority to continue the bus service between Charleston and Huntington running for the next three years. Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper says the bus route's operators will have to kick in some of their own money. The bus service is a joint operation of the Kanawha County Transit Agency and the Tri-State Transit Authority. Its federal funding expires in June. Carper says the state Division of Public Transit has offered to provide $250,050 over the next three years. The transit agencies will have to contribute $27,784 each per year.