GTAB will recommend bus system

[Support Georgetown Bus]

The Georgetown Transit Advisory Board (GTAB) voted on Friday, Feb 10th to recommend that Georgetown City Council enter an agreement with CARTS to implement a city wide bus system like the 6 route system that was approved but not funded in 2008.

As a result of 2010 Census data Georgetown will no longer be classified as rural for transit funding purposes. Because of this reclassification, the current CARTS paratransit service (door-to-door service for the elderly and disabled) will be ended because it is currently classified as a rural type of service. The cost to the city to continue paratransit service without rural funding would be at least $300,000 per year. As a small urban transit district we would be eligible for funding that would allow us to establish a fixed route bus system including paratransit service for about $250,000 per year.

The alternative is that City Council could elect to not offer any service at all. This would be catastrophic for the many elderly and disabled residents who rely on this service to get to doctor’s appointments and go grocery shopping.

Please contact your city council members and let them know that this is the time to implement public transit in Georgetown. The price is right and the need is great.

You can email all City Council Members plus the Mayor by emailing the following addresses: ma...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org, dist...@georgetown.org

If you would like to send a more personalized message to the City Council Member representing your district,  see http://government.georgetown.org/city-council/



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Lalena Parkhurst
Support the bus in Georgetown
george...@gmail.com
512-508-1485