Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Berliner to Tobytown: Normal Bus Service Does not Make Economic Sense

Note:  RideOn bus service does make sense in other parts of Montgomery County with similar average ridership numbers to Tobytown's. 
A Tobytown RideOn bus route is already predicted to generate 100 patrons.   That is more or similar to other currently running RideOn bus routes.  See page 28 of this Council information packet.

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Berliner Announces Potential Transit Service for Tobytown Residents at HOC Meeting

 


Montgomery County’s Housing Opportunities Commission (HOC) held a meeting with Tobytown residents on Monday night at the community’s recreation center. While HOC initially limited the event to the Tobytown community, residents from surrounding areas and the media were able to join local officials at the meeting.

Montgomery County Council Vice President Roger Berliner stopped by the meeting and discussed Tobytown’s request for public transit.

Berliner announced his plans to support a shuttle route proposal, that would include Tobytown, at a Council meeting to be held on Thursday. He said that the proposed all-day transit service would connect residents to Metro, schools, and jobs...

Video of Councilmember Roger Berliner's statement at this link.
 http://www.mymcmedia.org/berliner-announces-potential-transit-service-for-tobytown-residents-at-hoc-meeting-photos/

6 comments:

  1. Berliner... another councilmember in the pockets of developers.

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    1. and yet voters elected him...three times.

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  2. This county's failures in fairly distributing low-income family housing have resulted in the disparate impacts in transportation services upon Tobytown residents and the red-zone/green-zone disparate impacts in our public schools.

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    1. Montgomery County “stole” property from Tobytown descendants. So, no, I wouldn’t expect it to provide any services (housing, transportation, etc.) to the remaining residents.

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    2. Are you saying that Montgomery County is a 'Hood Robin'?

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