{"id":737,"date":"2016-05-12T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=737"},"modified":"2016-05-12T06:00:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T10:00:16","slug":"lt-council-considers-upfront-costs-of-town-run-senior-transit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/?p=737","title":{"rendered":"LT: Council Considers Upfront Costs of Town-Run Senior Transit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0Londonderry Times <!-- IE6-8 support of HTML5 elements --> <!-- [if lt IE 9]>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/londonderrytimes.net\/wp-content\/themes\/ifeaturepro5\/inc\/js\/html5.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>\n\t<![endif]--> <!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v3.1.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ --> <!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. --><script id=\"twitter-wjs\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><script src=\"\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js\" 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vcard\"><a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"View all posts by Kaitlyn G Woods\" href=\"http:\/\/londonderrytimes.net\/author\/kwoods\/\" rel=\"author\">Kaitlyn G Woods<\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-meta\">\n<div id=\"single_page\" class=\"container-full-width\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-fluid\">\n<div id=\"container\" class=\"row-fluid\">\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" span8 content-sidebar-right\">\n<article id=\"post-32586\" class=\"post-32586 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-news\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"p1\">In an update on transportation offerings for Londonderry seniors, Town Manager Kevin Smith said several neighboring communities are providing services to residents at varying costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat we have found in surrounding communities is some have town-run transportation systems for their seniors and some are a hybrid, offering a town subsidy but having it be privately run,\u201d he told the Council at its May 2 meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Senior Resource Committee has proposed Londonderry enhance transportation offerings seniors are accessing through the Cooperative Alliance for Regional Transportation (CART), which Councilor Joe Green said are not sufficient for the needs of seniors in town.<span id=\"more-32586\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But Council Chairman John Farrell said he has not heard from seniors in the community that transportation is an issue and asked that the results from a survey the Senior Resource Committee conducted last year be shared at the Council\u2019s next meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">According to responses provided in the Committee\u2019s 2015 Transportation Survey, most seniors in town travel in their own vehicles, rather than relying on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Preliminary data revealed that of 104 seniors who participated in the\u00a0survey, 77 said they have their own car and only six said they use CART services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">But Green said people who are not satisfied with CART aren\u2019t speaking up because they fear losing the services they have, even though they aren\u2019t sufficient to meet their needs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cPeople are coming to me,\u201d he said. \u201cThat type of demographic, they don\u2019t like to complain about anything. They try to do it on their own, they\u2019re very prideful and they don\u2019t want to give up the service they do have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smith said the Town could approach enhancing transportation options through a variety of models with varying price tags.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For example, the Town of Windham has cut its budget for public transportation in half since moving to a town-run system. Windham offers transportation Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with three on-call drivers who are employed by the Town and paid a little over $8 per-hour, according to Smith.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Smith said while there are upfront costs to purchasing a bus and insurance, as well as for hiring drivers, Windham has seen its annual budget for transportation halved, from $14,000 to $7,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWhat I have heard from the folks in Windham is it has been widely successful having it be town-run,\u201d he said, noting Community Caregivers has helped fill any gaps in service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Alternatively, Atkinson placed $5,000 in its capital reserve fund to subsidize the start-up costs of its own transportation program, Smith said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Towns that are doing it seem to be very successful; and it appears in towns like Windham, they are doing it very much on the cheap. In a town like Atkinson, it\u2019s a hefty budget item,\u201d he said. \u201cCan it be done? Yes. It appears the cost varies depending on how the community does it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Council plans to consider responses to the Senior Resources Committee\u2019s 2015 Transportation Survey and further discuss transportation options at future meetings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the\u00a0Londonderry Times Council Considers Upfront Costs of Town-Run Senior Transit Posted on May 5, 2016 by Kaitlyn G Woods In an update on transportation offerings for Londonderry seniors, Town Manager Kevin Smith said several neighboring communities are providing services to residents at varying costs. \u201cWhat we have found in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"From the Londonderry Times: Council Considers Upfront Costs of Town-Run Senior Transit","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townunderground.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}