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Neligh’s Dial-a-Ride

Keeps Rolling for 40 Years

When six-year-old Evelyn Johnson needs a A small bus was subsequently purchased

ride from daycare to the Neligh Public Library through a grant. At rst it was mostly elderly
for story hour, her mom sets up a bus pick up people who used the transportation service.

and drop off at the library for her with “ “There was a misconception that you had to
Neligh’s Dial-A-Ride program. The program, be handicapped to use the Hand-i-bus,”

which is the oldest public transit program in Klabenes said, “Through the years, Neligh
the state, is celebrating 40 years of helping residents have come to see the Dial-A-Ride as

adultsdults and kids get around town and across
a a useful transportation service for all types of
Antelope County. A lot of people in Neligh needs. It’s not uncommon for up to 20

are given rides – about 7,000 just in the last students to be picked up after school and
year. The town’s population is about 1,500. delielivered home or to a local restaurant
d
Dana Klabenes, City of Neligh Clerk and before heading off to a sporting event.” A
Treasurer, said the program began in 1978 sizeable number of Neligh school students

when a need for public transit services was live outside the city limits.

i n the summer, teens without drivers’ licenses
idedenti ed in Neligh.