HANCOCK -- Wednesday night's Hancock City Council meeting brought to light the early stages of a project to reinvent the Houghton and Hancock bus transit system.
The cities teamed up with students from Michigan Tech University. Students from the university's Transportation Enterprise and Automotive Computing Enterprise received a grant to study the existing mass transit system. They will then develop a model that would be more sustainable economically and environmentally.
Hancock City Manager Glenn Anderson addressed the project with residents Wednesday night.
"To look at our operations, look at our buses, look at the alternate systems that might be on the market and might be available, and Michigan Tech received a $50,000 Ford College Community Challenge grant to fund this effort," said Anderson, "and that will be spent sometime later this fall."
Students are required to write a proposal for the system that also includes efficient use of energy.
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