SMTD cuts out-of-town mid-day routes

Low ridership and short staff will cause Sangamon Mass Transit District to end its mid-day service to Chatham, Riverton, and Sherman beginning Monday.

Morning and late-afternoon service will continue. There was no mid-day service on the Rochester route.

Chatham, Riverton, and Sherman busses will travel from Springfield to those communities in the morning and make a total of three trips around the community before returning to Springfield.

The same for the afternoon routes.

Individual route schedules can be found at SMTD dot org slash routes.

SMTD says they gave those discontinued routes significant
promotion and advertising for two years without success so they are not expecting the mid-day service on these routes to return.