How would you improve public transit in Decatur?

He says we have a great bus service, recently adding Sunday bus routes. He says he advocated for five years for late night bus service for third shift workers.

He said we have good transportation as far as city services go, but that it can always be improved, and that federal funds help the city expand their transportation services.

She says we have a good transportation service and she is pleased with it, but "we are not done yet and we still have work to do".

Gregory talked about previously extending bus service hours so people can get home from work, modifying routes to get people to richland, and providing free bus rides to high school students as some accomplishments.

Gregory said Decatur has a new director of transportation who is "young and amazing," and that she (the new director) is looking at our routes & doing her very best to improve route services & open up new days of service.

He is advocating for Decatur buses to support seniors, disabled people, and low income people for medical appointments. He says we have a large senior population in Decatur.

Additionally, he says there's no way to get home from the Decatur Airport with public transit and wishes to extend services there to get people home or to hotels from the airport.

He says people won't come to Decatur if they can't get where they need to go and we "don't want to lose our beautiful airport."

He says our buses are phenomenal, but that many members of our community think there's room for improvement in other areas. He expresses concern that public transit is often one of the first things on the "chopping block" when population and revenue decline.

He says we don't have enough of a footprint for trains or subways, which are also very costly.

He said others talked about buses, so he'd take a different approach, talking about "active transportation", not based upon a car or a bus.

He says Decatur is a "very car-based city" and that it's hard to "meet your basic needs" if you don't have your own vehicle or regular transportation service, especially if you live in poverty.

He's advocating for bikes and walking, which he says are big things in other communities and needs more time and focus in Decatur. He said the Great Streets, Great Neighborhoods initiative is working on some of this, which would include improving sidewalks.

He suggested making sidewalks larger and safer, expressing concern that many sidewalks are close to busy roads so they don't feel safe, for example if you are walking with a child in a stroller.

He says these small efforts can have a "long lasting effect" and are much more cost effective than trying to build a subway underground, which "hopefully that's eventually where we can be," but "that's not where we're at currently", and we have to look at what is "tangible" at this point in time.

He mentioned the expansion of bike lanes, but said that is "difficult too in certain regards." He said he also supports electric buses.