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63 <br />Question 5: Do you have any other comments on public transportation in your community that may be of <br />help in developing this plan? <br />Need to coordinate better between service providers and expand rural services beyond only medical <br />related, i.e. cover food deserts. <br />Chatham County lost most all industrial jobs but Lee and Durham Counties are showing growth. <br />Unfortunately, residents lads transportation to get to the other counties early morning and bads home <br />evenings so they can work thisjobs. <br />We do have some numbers of food deserts and transportation deserts (where houses have no car) from <br />the American Communities9arvey. Transportation has health consequences! I'll be coming from Grange <br />County Health Department to add that voice to the table. Thanks for hosting us. <br />9re above. But there should be early transportation from, and later, early evening transportation back, <br />to Chatham County. People would use transit that was realistically scheduled. I never understood the <br />scheduling of the Pboro to CH bus. Also, why isthere no transit from Pboro to 91er City? <br />I think that there should be a door -to -door service for the elderly and disabled. Transport for these <br />individuals sometimes involves going to the doctor or dinics and could perhaps be partially supported by <br />the large medical centers. It would cut down on the cost of unnecessarily using an ambulance. <br />We need to change new developments (and redevelopment) to be more dense and compact so that it <br />will be easier for people to use transit. <br />There needsto be a route in Northern orange county <br />I understand one factor may be to accomodate personswith low income but I would like to be able to <br />take a busto work instead of driving myself (1 person) to and from work. I'd also like to see more <br />sidewalks throughout the county. <br />When I was disabled, I was home bound. Carrying oxygen means door to door service was essential. <br />The "majority' of Public Transportation serves the southern part of the county - I'm not in the southern <br />part !! <br />Summary of Reoommendations <br />The information in the previous section provides a detailed list of needs, strategies, and priorities within <br />Grange County. The following strategies standout as being both appropriate and a high priority for <br />implementation based on the results of the workshop. This summary is not all - inclusive, and should not <br />be interpreted as a limit on potential future actions, but rather as away to identify some of the highest <br />prioritiesfor implementation. <br />• New /improved fixed routesand deviated fixed routes —the mapping exercise identified a need <br />for new routes in multiple areas of the county, particularly feeder routes into the rural areas, <br />and a route running east -west between Mebane, Hillsborough, and Durham (possibly as an <br />express route). <br />Triangle Area FFO Locally Coordinated Human 9?rvice Transportation Ran 57 <br />