“We said to the community, 'Look, we're drowning. We need your help. You need to be more judicious in who you are sending to us because we can't accommodate them all,'”
“The specific chore that we're undertaking at the moment is taking the routes of the existing systems and doing an overlay map to see where we're redundant and what's not served and see if we can address that. We want to get routes that are user-friendly and frequency that is practical, and that means from the user standpoint and from the cost standpoint.”
“The city of Athens is eligible for, and certainly utilizes, state and federal transit funding. The university is not eligible for those, so combining with the city has that advantage. It is my theory that if the city uses its transit dollars and ability to get grant money, and the university uses a minor student fee, we should be able to build a more useful system and promote it.”
