[Travelandtourism] title VI

[David Andrews]

Cheryl, it is all relative.  Where I live I don't have service after 
5:45 in the evening, and nothing on weekends.  Granted I live in a 
suburb, somewhat outside twin cities, service in inner ring of 
suburbs, and cities is better.

Dave

At 02:53 PM 12/12/2013, you wrote:
>Well here in NY, it is not all run by the MTA, out here on Long 
>Island, it is run by private companies. Suffolk County Bus here 
>where I live, and in Nassau County, for the past 2 years is NICE. 
>Nassau Inter County Express. I wish it was on MTA, we would have 
>better service here in Suffolk County. We don't have Sunday service, 
>which Nassau County has, and we don't have or late night service, 
>our bus stops running at about 7pm or maybe a little later, so we 
>are trapped in the county if we wanted later bus service or Sunday.
>
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> > From: atlanticstar1 at gmail.com
> > To: travelandtourism at nfbnet.org
> > Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 15:48:38 -0500
> > Subject: Re: [Travelandtourism] title VI
> >
> > Cheryl:
> >
> > Yes we do have a transportation board here and there are a couple of
> > qualified disabled individuals who serve on it so we are represented and
> > they are doing the best they can do under the political climate.
> >
> > Unlike New York, Pennsylvania and even Washington D.C. the State 
> of Georgia
> > doesn't fund Marta however, they do have some say so on how Marta 
> spends its
> > money.  The politicians feel that public transportation is to 
> expensive for
> > a State Government to afford and it would be better off in the hands of
> > private Companies.  Most of the States elective voters don't live where
> > public transportation is needed, so there's no reason for them to 
> side with
> > us.
> >
> > Also there's this belief down here that having public 
> transportation brings
> > more crime so usually once an area loses its transportation, it never gets
> > it back.  So as you all can clearly see, we face an up hill battle between
> > the polotitions and the State elective who's against us anyway.
> >
> > DJ Reese
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- Thank you Maurice Shackelford.
> > As you Maurice is the Vice President of the Division, but we need 
> all of you
> > posted on these issues in your area as well!
> > Maurce, we have Margo Downey that was appointed by the Governor 
> here at the
> > Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority's board of Commissioners.
> > What about you trying to get on the transportation board where you live,
> > each county should have one, I have been trying to get on mine hear for
> > awhile, and now I have to talk with the new Legislator of my district,
> > because he wasn't re-elected.
> >