{"id":1316,"date":"2011-11-03T15:28:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/public-transportation-recommended-by-industrial-authoritys-community-assessment.html"},"modified":"2011-11-03T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T19:28:46","slug":"public-transportation-recommended-by-industrial-authoritys-community-assessment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/public-transportation-recommended-by-industrial-authoritys-community-assessment.html","title":{"rendered":"Public Transportation recommended by Industrial Authority&#8217;s Community Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"Perusing the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialauthority.com\/file\/Lowndes%20Community%20Assessment%20Report.pdf\">\nCommunity Assessment for Lowndes County<\/a>\nsponsored by Georgia Power and prepared by Janus Economics\nfor the Industrial Authority, I noticed on page 28 under Recommendations:\n<blockquote>\nThere is a plan for a public transportation system\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialauthority.com\/file\/Lowndes%20Community%20Assessment%20Report.pdf\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6218\/6310104328_498892c6bd_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nin Valdosta-Lowndes\nCounty but it currently lacks funding for implementation. Under current\nbudget constraints it will be difficult to implement such a project,\nbut businesses in the industrial parks and outlying areas may want to\nimplement a limited transportation system if they discover that employee\nattendance is an issue.\n<\/blockquote>\nAlso on page 9 of the corresponding\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrialauthority.com\/file\/Lowndes%20Community%20Assessment%20PP%20color.pdf\">\npresentation slides<\/a> under Product Recommendations:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nSUPPORT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION\n<ul>\n<li>\nEmerged as a topic of concern during focus groups\n<li>\nDirectly impacts industry recruitment and workforce\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\nHm, employees may want a way to get to work!\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/httplaketypepadcomon-the-lake-front20110912m-to-widen-us-41-n-is-more-than-75m-for-a-bus-systemhtml.html\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;border:none;\"   src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6189\/6132913157_04b8c90899_m.jpg\"><\/a>\nMaybe the community, including the city and county elected governments,\nshould put more priority on\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/09\/httplaketypepadcomon-the-lake-front20110912m-to-widen-us-41-n-is-more-than-75m-for-a-bus-systemhtml.html\">\na bus system.<\/a>\nT-SPLOST is not a very good way to do it, but there may be others.\n<p>\nCongratulations to Georgia Power and the Industrial Authority\nfor conducting this study and putting it online where everyone can see it!\nAlthough next time it might be good to be a bit more inclusive of\n<a href=\"\/blog\/2011\/11\/what-can-we-do-as-a-community-to-better-cooperate-dr-noll.html\">input from the community.<\/a>\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Perusing the Community Assessment for Lowndes County sponsored by Georgia Power and prepared by Janus Economics for the Industrial Authority, I noticed on page 28 under Recommendations: There is a plan for a public transportation system in Valdosta-Lowndes County but it currently lacks funding for implementation. 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