RM of West St. Paul

The Rural Municipality of West St. Paul is pleased to announce that the Municipality has been approved to receive a grant under the Province of Manitoba’s Mobility Disadvantaged Transportation Program (MDTP) and has established a Handi-Van Service in co-operation with Wheelchair Service of Manitoba.

This program will provide transportation for people who cannot use other modes of transport because of mobility impairment or are legally blind.

It is a shared ride, door-to-door service that operates within the same service area as the fixed route system.  Drivers physically assist passengers from the ground floor doorway, to and from the vehicle, to the ground floor doorway at the destination.

Under the guidelines of the Program service will be provided on an equitable basis to all mobility disadvantaged persons.

Each user will be required to complete an application form which will be available at the Municipal Office or you can download it here. 

 

The application will be reviewed to ensure the applicant meets the pre-established user criteria.  When accepted the user will be provided a "user card”. Each user will be provided a user number, which will be recorded into the Wheelchair Service of Manitoba’s database.

Currently, there is a limit of two round trips per week.  Wheelchair Services of Manitoba will monitor this as each time a rider uses the system the appointment and user number is entered into the database.

Rider priority will be as follows:

The hours of operation for this Handi-Van Service will be from 9:00am to 6:00pm, Monday to Friday and pre-booking is required with 24 hour notice.

 

Presently a user has to originate in West St. Paul and be transported to the City of Winnipeg.

 

There are two areas in Winnipeg for which transportation services are provided to. Please contact Wheelchair Services of MB, at (204) 982­-0799 to verify which area your destination is located in.

 

 

	Area "1" Per ride one way	Area "2" Per ride one way
User (Rider) Cost	$7.25	$9.25

 

In August 2017, GoManitoba was launched by the Green Action Centre in partnership with members of the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region.  GoManitoba is the first province-wide ridesharing platform that helps connect individuals access the Winnipeg Metropolitan Region.  Through the program, people from all Metropolitan Region communities are provided a way to organize carpools, learn about transit, and match bike and walk mentors.  With more options to connect, people can find alternative ways for travelling to work, school, appointments, shopping centres and recreation facilities.  Since being launched, GoManitoba has seen a growing interest around the Province with many users coming from areas within the Metropolitan Region.