(Atlantic, Iowa) – Officials with SWIPCO (the Southwest Iowa Planning Council), which oper­ates Southwest Iowa Transit Agency (SWITA), have announced the launch of a new website focused on its public transit services. SWIPCO Executive Director John McCurdy says “Southwest Iowans are very used to seeing SWITA buses. The question is, do they know that SWITA’s public transit service is for everyone? With SWITA. com’s launch, we will be able to reach many more people who can utilize public trans­portation.”

McCurdy added that many in the region assume SWITA’s transit service is only available to the elderly or disabled, but he notes that is only part of the serivce. “All can ride, and we have many who ride SWITA to work and to school—you have somewhere to be, and SWITA takes you there.”

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The new website includes information about each of the types of transit services SWITA operates, including student and medical transportation, taxi, and work routes. Riders can pay their bill and will even be able to request a ride through the website in the near future. Not to worry—the old-fashioned way of calling into the office still works, too.

McCurdy strongly encourages everyone to take a few minutes to check out the www.swita.com website, not only to see about the services that are available, but also to let us know of any issues that they may see. To quote McCurdy, “We’ve been looking at this thing for months, but the volume of information on the website is huge, so we are more than happy to get any feedback to improve the site.”