Project Backer: Hungryneck Straphangers
THE PROJECT
A program of community-based outreach and enhanced communication to increase ridership on the CARTA Route #20: King Street/Citadel Line, including: (1) installation of benches at 4 stops which lack them; (2) community education; (3) enhanced QR Code linking route and stop information in pubic places; and, (4) business partnerships.
WHO BENEFITS
Residents of Charleston living or working near the #20 – King Street/Citadel bus route, focusing on that part of the route north to Line Street, including the West Side, Citadel and Hampton Park areas, Wagner Terrace, and Joseph Floyd Manor.
STATUS
Advancing
HURDLES & CHALLENGES
Approval of bench locations may require city permitting. The rest follows a model we’re already using with Hungryneck Straphangers in Mount Pleasant. We’ll need to recruit and train a group of resident transit activists and break out of the let-someone-else-do-it-for-us model.
POTENTIAL COLLABORATIONS
Collaboration with schools, churches, owners of rental properties, Joseph Floyd Manor residents association, the Citadel, the Longshoremen, and neighborhood associations, as well as the city government.
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