Catch a ride with the free NB Liquor Harvest Park & Ride
September 6, 2011
Drop your car; catch a ride.
The Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival announced today that the NB Liquor Harvest Park and Ride will run again this year, offering patrons safe and green transport to and from the heart of the Festival grounds.
This free transportation includes runs to several south side hotels, university campus and the FREX.
The NB Liquor Harvest Park and Ride buses will run on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of the Festival on two routes designed to accommodate many Harvest Patrons.
This is hoped to reduce gas emissions and parking congestion downtown, as well as to ensure that patrons have safe transport to and from the downtown.
“We continue to be committed to green initiatives in an effort to remain an environmentally-friendly Festival by reducing our carbon footprint,” says Brad Wasson, Chair of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival. “This means encouraging organizers, patrons, volunteers, and musicians to do their part individually during Festival week. We hope that initiatives like the NB Liquor Harvest Park and Ride will make it a little easier to think green.”
Running every 20 minutes from 3pm to 3am daily, the FREX run will pick patrons up in the FREX parking lot, on the corner of Smythe and Saunders Streets, make a stop at the Delta and drop patrons off at Wilmot Alley.
Park and Ride will also make three hotel runs early in the evening to pick up patrons, then again at the end of the night to bring them safely back to their hotel. The hotels included in the runs are Lakeview Inn, Comfort Inn, Howard Johnson, Fredericton Inn, Amsterdam Inn, Best Western, as well the Student Union Building on UNB’s campus.
The buses will pick up patrons on Thursday, Friday and Saturday at all 6 hotels and the UNB SUB on three runs, once per hour, between 5pm and 8pm, dropping them off at Wilmot Alley downtown. The buses will return to all hotels and campus once an hour between 11pm and 3am.
“The NB Liquor is pleased to continue its sponsorship of the Harvest Jazz and Blues Festival’s Park and Ride program, now in its fifth year,” says Daniel Allain, President and CEO, Alcool NB Liquor. “The program serves downtown, both university campuses, and several hotels in the city. We encourage patrons to use this free service for easy access to Festival venues.”
For the full NB Liquor Harvest Park and Ride schedule and maps, please visit www.harvestjazzandblues.com/index.php/parkandride.
And for more information on all the Festival’s green efforts and what you can do to keep the Festival green, visit www.harvestjazzandblues.com/index.php/green.
