March 2014
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the county of Yolo and Wintun Indian Na-
tion to provide bus service to Cache Creek
CasinoResort, about 20miles west ofWood-
land, which employs more than 2,300 from
Yolo and Sacramento counties and beyond.
All the progress leaves Bassett to another
favorite hobby – coming up with additional
interesting figures to populate the website’s
Did You Know page.
Among them:
• At any given time, there are as many as 41
Yolobus buses fixed route buses and seven
ADA-serving para-transit vehicles on the
road;
• Yolobus makes 244 trips to the Sacramen-
to International Airport every week from
various locations; and
• Yolobus provides service on the street 21.7
hours each weekday.
“I do it for fun,” Bassett says, while point-
ing out the more than 32 million passengers
transported since day one exceeds the pop-
ulation of Texas. “The progress we’ve made
comes from reading the tea leaves for the fu-
ture and figuring how best to accommodate
changes and expectations from public.”
Creation of the district also created a role
as a county congestion management agency,
Celebration of Yolobus rural bus facilitiy in Madison Calif
