CALEB NICKERSON
CAMPBELL’S BAY
April 12, 2018
On April 12, the TransporAction board of directors held their annual general meeting at their office in Campbell’s Bay.
The organization is a non-profit formed in 2004 to offer accessible transportation to the population of the Pontiac. Through a network of volunteers, they offer carpooling for everything from shopping trips to medical appointments, even offering trips to the hospitals in Montreal and Gatineau. They also offer collective transportation with their wheelchair-accessible buses.
In 2017 they were proud to provide bi-monthly service with a collective transport vehicle for every municipality in the region.

The overall amount of collective transport trips was down in 2017 at 11,127 from its peak in 2016 at 11,974. Seniors made up the overwhelming majority of the 831 users, and 86 per cent of the trips were for medical reasons.
Adapted transportation had a smaller pool of 330 users, but accounted for nearly twice as many trips as collective, with 24,369 in 2017. This was down from 2016, where there were 25,070 adapted trips. A higher proportion of these trips were for leisure, at 15 per cent, but the lion’s share remained medical, at 79 per cent.
At the end of the meeting, Pontiac Warden Jane Toller, who was in attendance, announced that she was petitioning the provincial government to put a more stable funding arrangement in place, to aid the organization’s long-term planning.