FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, June 23, 2022
CONTACT: Jordan Damron, [email protected]
*PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE BELOW*
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TIME CHANGE: Gov. Justice to attend ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Bluefield Area Transit Transfer Station in Bluefield today at 1:00 p.m.
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WHO: Gov. Jim Justice, Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Transportation Jimmy Wriston, other officials.
WHAT: Official ribbon-cutting of the new Larlyn Patrick McKinney Bluefield Area Transit Regional Transfer Station in Bluefield.
The state-of-the-art facility will operate as the hub of the city’s Bluefield Area Transit bus system. The local transportation network serves more than 200,000 annual passengers on routes in Mercer and McDowell counties. The new bus transfer station was built utilizing more than $527,000 in grant funding from the WVDOT, along with funds from the U.S. Federal Transit Administration and local funding.
Gov. Justice attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the station in March 2021.
WHEN: Thursday, June 23, 2022, at 1:00 p.m.
WHERE: Larlyn Patrick McKinney Bluefield Area Transit Regional Transfer Station
1400 Bluefield Ave, Bluefield, WV 24701
All West Virginians can watch a livestream of this event at the following links:
YouTube: https://youtu.be/7FnBDygJRts
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/WVGovernor
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wvgovernor
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