Expanded trolley routes applauded

July 1, 2008

Anonymous The Goshen News Tue Jul 01, 2008, 10:45 AM EDT

As members of the community interested in seeing increased public transportation services, we, the Transportation Task Force, are very excited to see that the Interurban Trolley is expanding its route farther into Goshen’s Industrial Park.

We are grateful for this extension, and want to publicly affirm Michiana Area Council of Governments for this positive step towards better serving our local community. This is a great starting point in making work places more accessible to employees!

In our conversations with community members in Elkhart and Goshen over the last few months, many have advocated for increasing public transportation to residential and industrial areas.

In addition to this support from the community at-large, we have received more than 3,000 supportive signatures and comment forms — with more arriving every day. Thus we also thank MACOG on behalf of those who have submitted forms to us with their support of this new Interurban Trolley route.

We are glad to have had the opportunity to meet with MACOG staff in April, and appreciate the recent route change in the context of our ongoing conversations. We look forward to continuing work with MACOG and community members to support clean and affordable transportation for local residents and workers in the local economy.

— Transportation Task Force

Nicole Bauman, Hugo Juarez, Carl Meyer, Karissa Ortman Loewen, Jimmer Prieto, Zulma Prieto, all of Goshen, and Jason Shenk, Elkhart

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