A reliable, fully staffed public transit system is a crucial commodity in a resort town such as Steamboat Springs. This was graphically illustrated during the recent WinterWonderGrass event, which saw thousands of festival goers descend upon Steamboat and record numbers of riders utilize the city’s free bus service.

But maintaining such a system has always presented vexing challenges, not the least of which is in recruiting summer drivers.

That’s why we were encouraged to see Steamboat Springs Transit take a proactive approach toward meeting the staffing challenge by hosting Friday’s summer job fair. As the billing implies, the event was organized primarily as a means of staffing summer positions, but SST also hoped the event would strengthen the city’s recruiting relationship with multiple organizations that send bus drivers and other seasonal employees here during the winter months.

Historically, we’ve always had trouble recruiting seasonal bus drivers, and we applaud SST for hosting the fair, not only as a means of connecting workers with jobs and vice-versa, but also as a way of shoring up the conduits by which those workers come to Steamboat in the first place.

Read more at Steamboat Today.