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Katherine Manning Portage Area Regional Transit Authority (PARTA)
My Background
- Vice
President, Burges and Burges
- Director
- f
Planning, Stark Area Regional Transit Authority
- Director
- f
Planning, Portage Area Regional Transit Authority
Veterans Transportation Katherine Manning Portage Area Regional - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Veterans Transportation Katherine Manning Portage Area Regional - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Veterans Transportation Katherine Manning Portage Area Regional Transit Authority (PARTA) My Background Vice President, Burges and Burges Director of Planning, Stark Area Regional Transit Authority Director of
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SARTA’s VTCLI Grant
- Veterans
Transportation Community Living Initiative
- FTA
Awarded $64 million to help veterans, military families and
- thers
connect to jobs and services in their communities by improving access to local transportation
- ptions.
- Total
Grant award $420,000
- IVR,
Web and SMS integration
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paratransit services.
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Creating New Relationships
- New
relationships developed with the Veterans and gaps in transportation identified.
- Stark
County Veteran Services Commission (VSC) identified need for better/lower cost transportation.
- Small,
aging, non-ADA vans
- 1
trip M-F to the VA Hospital in Cleveland (60 miles)
- Left
early in the morning and waited into the afternoon
- Part-time
drivers
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SARTA’s Plan
- Developed
a contract with VSC to create
- pen-door
fixed route service to Cleveland stopping:
- Cornerstone
(Downtown Transit Center)
- American
Legion
- Wade
Park VA Hospital
- Downtown
Cleveland
- American
Legion
- Cornerstone
(Downtown Transit Center)
- Service
3 times a day
- (8:35am,12:30pm
and 4:20pm)
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Benefits for VSC
- All
buses are ADA accessible, seat up to 28 individuals plus 2 wheelchairs (allowing for Veterans to bring a spouse, etc.)
- Full-Time
CDL Drivers
- Unlimited
passes for Veterans
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the Cleveland Route (must book through the VSC)
- Other
non-VSC passengers pay $2.50 per ride
- Cost
$16,250 quarterly – less than current service costs.
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Marketing Cleveland Route
▪ To help pay for the Veterans Route, we also promoted the Cleveland Route…
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Veterans at PARTA…
- Received
a VTCLI Grant
- In
2014, PARTA unveiled a Veterans Memorial in Downtown Kent.
- Family
members, Friends and Veterans can purchase bricks to honor those who served in the military to become part
- f
the military.
- A
ceremony is held every year
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Veterans Day.