Thousands attend the 2015 Detroit Ford Fireworks Display along Windsor's waterfront on June 22, 2015. (Photo by Ricardo Veneza)Thousands attend the 2015 Detroit Ford Fireworks Display along Windsor's waterfront on June 22, 2015. (Photo by Ricardo Veneza)
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Fireworks shuttle ridership soars

Transit Windsor is celebrating an 82 per cent increase in ridership on its shuttle bus to the Ford Fireworks over last year.

Between 6 p.m. Monday and 12:30 a.m. Tuesday, 6,200 people took the shuttle bus from Devonshire Mall to the fireworks downtown and back. That's a total of 110 trips on 27 buses.

Transit Windsor buses were free as of 6 p.m. that night. Overall, city service rose by 90 per cent.

Zehrs sponsored the shuttle bus again this year.

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