YORK COUNTY, S.C. — York County officials have meetings scheduled for July 16 and July 18 to discuss expanding the county's transit system.
The director of RFATS in York County, David Hooper, said with the growth the area has seen, the conversation of expanding roadways and transit was inevitable.
“This area is growing," Hooper told WCNC Charlotte. "We have a lot of new people coming into the area, businesses coming into the area and there are changes as a result. We’re going to be looking at levels of traffic congestion, system reliability, and how we make that work in York County and North Carolina."
He says in addition to that, they will be discussing traffic congestion management and the reliability of the transportation system, an issue some residents say needs help.
“You’re probably going to be standing up and then they have people sitting in the floors, the aisles, sitting by the doors and it’s not a safe voyage sometimes,” Darrell Draper, a resident who’s been using the service for four years, said.
Draper said he’s grateful for the free rides but explains the county should consider more pick up times, more buses, and more drop off locations.
“If you’re job hunting, you’re limited on where you can apply because you can’t get to other jobs or you have to get off and walk a mile or two. Sometimes I have to leave two hours before to get there an hour before because that’s the only bus I can take,” Draper said.
The meeting on July 16 will be held at the city of Rock Hill Operations Center in Conference Room 132 at 6 p.m. The meeting on July 18 will be held at the Unity Presbyterian Church in the Historic Sanctuary Room at 6 p.m.
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