A New Brunswick boy who thought he would have to miss Saturday’s Nickelback concert due to the transit lockout in Moncton received some good news Thursday.

“I can’t wait until the concert, but the problem is I don’t have a drive to go there,” Nickelback fan and wheelchair user Jamie Vautour told CTV News Wednesday.

Vautour’s mother spent $350 on concert tickets for the family, but yesterday he said getting a bus that is wheelchair accessible from Champlain Place is no longer an option because of the transit lockout.

Now, thanks to a CTV News viewer who caught wind of the story, the Dieppe resident has a ride plus some spending money.

“It means a lot to me for me to go to the concert and get some souvenirs,” he says.

The anonymous donor drove from Rothesay, N.B. Thursday morning to hand deliver $200 to the CTV News office in Moncton.

“I appreciate everything that he did because the little boy couldn’t go to the concert,” says the boy’s mother Pauline Vautour. “It was very nice of everybody to help.”

Troy Allen’s transportation company will bring the Vautours to the show, but he says concerts pose a difficult problem for businesses like his.

He says his main clientele are people who need a drive to medical appointments, and not to late-night rock concerts.

“We need a driver to come in just to go up to the concert and sit and wait until it's done. That could be an hour, two hours, it varies,” says Allen.

The lockout of Codiac Transpo employees means individuals with physical challenges will need to find their own way to the hill, because the company hired to take their place doesn’t have wheelchair accessible buses.

Monctoncity planner Jacques Dube admits the options for private accessible transportation are limited. He also says the city can help arrange drives for individuals with physical challenges.  

“We'll work with others to try and get them there and they certainly have my assurances that we will make that happen,” says Dube. “I would not want to see somebody not be able to go to the site if they were disabled.”

Roughly 35,000 fans are expected to attend the concert Saturday. Gates will open at 1 p.m. and the opening acts, which are all Canadian, start at 3:30 p.m.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Jonathan MacInnis