A motion asking for 365-day-a-year transit in Kamloops was dismissed by city council this week.

Former Kamloops councillor Donovan Cavers had put a motion forward for the service, saying there’s three days a year that buses don’t run.

Councillor Dieter Dudy says there’s no public appetite at this point to bring in the extra service.

“Somebody else may re-invent that motion and put it forward, and maybe argue to that point. I wasn’t prepared to do it. It really doesn’t affect me to that great a degree, and I haven’t had a public outcry come to me and say they needed transit on Christmas Day,” Dudy says.

“We’re talking about two days a year that likely aren’t used all that much”

The motion, filed by Cavers in November while still on council, says there’s no transit on Christmas, Good Friday and New Year’s Day in the Tournament Capital. Cavers stated that a lack of local transit on those holidays isolates people from their loved ones.

BC Transit announced earlier this week that they will be running minimal service on New Year’s Day this season, meaning the only day with no transit service at all in Kamloops during the holidays will be on Christmas.