Yvette, On The Bus
One rider’s take on Gwinnett County Transit
My reporting on the state of transit in Gwinnett County as part of What Moves You, Georgia took me to the almost-empty parking lot of Gwinnett Place Mall at 8:00 A.M. on a recent Monday.
Almost-empty, because the lot is home to the Gwinnett Transit Center — a concrete island with a few bus shelters and flowering bushes in concrete planters.
After rolling up in our GPB News van, a ravishing Ford Freestar (remember, folks, I have a penchant for sexy cars), I met Yvette MacPherson.
She was one of the handful of riders there that morning, and she had just missed her bus. I’ll let her take it from there:
To be fair, Yvette’s is just one opinion on Gwinnett County Transit, but her voice is important, because she’s one of the many people that depend on public transit in Gwinnett County.
According to the county, 1.4 million rides were taken on the system’s local and express routes last year.
And, if you assume all those riders are weekday commuters, like Yvette, that comes out to about 140,000 people that use the system to get to and from work.
Their 140,000 voices might not all say the same thing, but you’d still think they’d make a lot of noise.
#whatmovesyouGA?
