Announcements: Alerts

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) reported that discussion between the mediator, First Transit, and the union have been ongoing since late last week, but nothing resulting in a settlement agreement as occurred. Any additional information will be posted to BRTA’s website, as well as distributed to other media outlets once it is received. Your… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) just received notification that the latest offer presented to the Federal Mediator this morning has been voted on by the paratransit union membership at a meeting and was approved. This means all BRTA fixed route bus service will operate as usual beginning Wednesday, December 19, 2018 and the paratransit service… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) announced this afternoon that should the current paratransit strike continue into the weekend, the current limited fixed route bus service will not run on Saturday, December 15. Paratransit service will be limited to only transporting essential medical services on Saturday, December 15 and Sunday, December 16. On Monday, December 17, the fixed bus… [ read more … ]

Paratransit Management of the Berkshires, the operating company managing the Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) paratransit service was informed a short time ago that the most recent offer for a new paratransit service labor agreement was rejected by the employees represented by Teamsters Local 404. The latest proposal presented would have provided for annual January 1 wage… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA)has received comments regarding the limited fixed route service provided during the paratransit strike. Starting Tuesday December 11, 2018 the latest limited fixed route service bus schedule is below: For a PDF of the latest limited fixed route bus schedules click this link. Route 1 will operate 6:30 and 9:00 morning runs… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) announced this afternoon that should the current paratransit strike continue into the weekend, the current limited fixed route bus service will not run on Saturday, December 8. Paratransit service will be limited to transporting only essential medical services on Saturday, December 8 and Sunday, December 9. On Monday, December 10,… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA) through BRTA’s management company First Transit has negotiated in good faith with all of our drivers, schedulers, and dispatchers. We continue to be open and available to negotiate with the paratransit drivers, as we have done with our fixed route bus drivers. Berkshire Transit Management (BTM), fixed route bus… [ read more … ]

The Berkshire Regional Transit Authority (BRTA)has received comments regarding the limited fixed route service provided during the paratransit strike. Starting Tuesday December 4, 2018 the updated limited fixed route service bus schedule is below: For a PDF of the modified Route 1 and 11 schedules click this link. Route 1 will operate 6:30, 7:30, 9:00 and 10:00 morning runs… [ read more … ]