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