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Casino Mitigation Funds Sought For 'The Loop' Bus Service

The Loop bus in front of Union Station
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Massachusetts casino regulators are being asked to help fund the expansion of a free bus service linking the MGM Springfield casino with the city’s hotels and cultural attractions.

Just days before the grand opening of the MGM casino last August, Pioneer Valley Transit Authority Administrator Sandra Sheehan debuted the bus service called “The Loop.”             

 The Massachusetts Gaming Commission is being asked for almost $225,000 to expand the service to seven days a week from the current Wednesday-Sunday schedule and to extend The Loop to West Springfield to serve the hotels located in that suburb.

The commission is expected to make a decision by June.

The record-setting tenure of Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno. The 2011 tornado and its recovery that remade the largest city in Western Massachusetts. The fallout from the deadly COVID outbreak at the Holyoke Soldiers Home. Those are just a few of the thousands and thousands of stories WAMC’s Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Paul Tuthill has covered for WAMC in his nearly 17 years with the station.