{"id":753,"date":"2012-06-18T08:04:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/transportation-plan-open-house-sgrc-2012-05-22.html"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:04:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T12:04:09","slug":"transportation-plan-open-house-sgrc-2012-05-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/transportation-plan-open-house-sgrc-2012-05-22.html","title":{"rendered":"Transportation plan open house @ SGRC 2012-05-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nReceived 1 June 2012 about the\n\n22 May 2012 VLMPO Open House at SGRC<\/a>.\nThe “Transportation Improvement Program, or TIP, is the short-range\nplan approved by the VLMPO Policy Committee that allows federal funds\nto be spent on various transportation projects in the region.”\n-jsq\n<\/p>\n

\nI attended the transportation plan open house on the day that anyone could\ncome from early morning until 7:00 PM and when I went at 5, I was only the\n\n<\/a>\nsixth person who had been there all day. Corey Hull showed me and four\nother people the plan, answered our questions, explained the difference\nbetween this long term plan and the TSPLOST and there was a discussion about\nhow one might go about becoming a bus services provider in the area. The\namount of money allocated to the city of Valdosta for transportation is not\nan amount that is near what a bus system would cost, so there still will\nhave to be other funds available to make that possible. Even though our\ngroup brought the attendance for the day up to 10 citizens, it was a huge\nimprovement over the last open house, when NO ONE showed. Corey Hull was\nvery helpful and had a lot of information that probably would have been\nfascinating to others if they had attended, but once again there was\nvirtually no input.\n

\n-Jane F. Osborn, MSSW\n
\nValdosta, GA\n
\n229-630-0924\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nAccording to\n\nprojects submitted for T-SPLOST,<\/a>\na bus system would cost about $7.5 million (startup and a few years run-time),\nbut that got cut first pass, while $12 million for widening one road\nis still in the T-SPLOST list.\nI’m told that public transportation is not an issue around here.\nIf people think it is, maybe they should show up at meetings\nlike the one SGRC organized about the other transportation plan\nand say they want a bus system.\n<\/p>\n

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