Nipawin company planning new passenger transport routes
Staff with a Nipawin company is hoping to help fill the gap left by the closure of STC by starting a daily transportation service from Nipawin to Prince Albert and Saskatoon.
There are plans for the Clean Cab & Courier to start offering the service October 1, and the owners hope there is enough of a need to make the operation work. Les Blair and his wife Kathy previously operated a cab service in Nipawin, but Blair said they’re getting a lot of questions about the availability of a route to Prince Albert and other communities and decided to give it a try.
The company has now received permission from the province to operate a transportation service and has applied for a business license to operate in Prince Albert.
“We’re going to give it a shot. Hopefully, people will take advantage of it because it’s a service that’s needed,” Les said. “If there’s a demand, we’ll supply, that’s the key to this whole thing.”