Action Items for Transportation

“Transportation is key to all the areas of concern.”

Below are action items suggested in the area of transportation:

• Encourage car pooling to reduce emissions and preserve our environment
• Increase routes to areas with high concentration/presence of manufacturing and industrial jobs
• Before high school graduation CDL
• Transportation/ Logistics pathway
• Fund more routes
• Safety
• Government funding for those with low income (similar to food stamps)
• Individual companies providing transportation for employees (carpools)
• Develop partnerships with employers to provide vouchers or subsidized transportation to and from work
• Employers could provide small incentives to workers who car pool
• Create/ change the mindset of having a car
• [Remove] stigma of riding a bus
• Availability of bus stations
• Lack of drivers license
• Purposely don’t get a car to limit chances for employment
• Transportation is key to all the areas of concern
• Make transit/ alternative modes “cool”—remove the thought that it is “less”
• Improve sidewalks, shelters to make safe and easy to get to
• Subsidized ride sharing instead of bus route expansion
• Expand to weekend routes and weekend hours
• Increase frequency of routes
• Explore smaller vehicles for transfers and wider availability and higher frequency
• Partnership with ride share companies
• Add or relocate routes to the weekend
• Close down the least active weekday route and add a Saturday route that focus on health and grocery destinations
• Study best practices with CAT Bus
• Funding through grants for weekend and evenings
• Have smaller vehicles (vans) for transportation needs in the evenings (2nd shift, 3rd shift)
• Partner with taxi and have industries partner assist with cost
• Educate public schools more about using transportation—change mindset, encourage them