Wednesday Without Driving: Public Transportation Should Connect Public Services
You would think that's obvious; who would argue with the notion that a publicly operated service should connect to things like schools and public libraries? And yet... Whoever created the routes for the Dutchess County Bus did not think that people would wish the bus for The Boardman Road Public Library in the Town of Poughkeepsie. Or maybe the people who decided to place the library in a former IBM building on a tree-lined road with no sidewalks never imagined that patrons might be under the legal age of permitted driving. They did imagine that someone might ride a bike, and thus installed a bike rack by the front entrance. There is no bus service to the Dutchess County BOCES Campus, and lemme tell you, when trying to connect disadvantaged youth with the occupational classes offered, this was an enormous barrier. Because the most accessible classes offered by BOCES were the CNA classes, my former employer pretty much served as a streets-to-nursing-home pipeline. Don&#
