Business View Magazine l January 2023

229 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 12 personal level, means it’s just a great place to be.” Looking to the future, WATA has some grand plans set in motion. Ben notes staff is excited to see continued investment in modern transport technologies. “We’re really at an interesting time in terms of WATA’s development. We are rebuilding this facility, and we’ve purchased property to build a second facility, which will be called the Northern Transfer facility. We have WI LL IAMSBURG AREA TRANSI T AUTHORI T Y (WATA) invested just over a million dollars into our transit technologies recently to make sure that our transit service is easy to use for everyone who accesses it. These technologies will help us provide better access to real-time vehicle information, help us shift towards sustainable and electric transport, and allow riders to purchase tickets right from their phone.” “We actually are in the middle of beginning our