FAST bus slated to be discontinued

Fallbrook’s abysmal public transit service may get worse in August 2008 when the North County Transit District plans to discontinue its FAST bus service.

FAST is the blue and white dial-a-ride jitney bus that scoots around Fallbrook allowing seniors, people who can’t drive, and those with no car to run errands to the grocery stores, post office, and to doctor appointments.

If the FAST bus service is discontinued, people like long-time resident Helen Gruver, 90, will be cut adrift. She is visually impaired and lives alone. Fiercely independent, Gruver says “I won’t bother my neighbors. It’s all...