City Council candidates discuss Columbia bus system
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COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN City Council candidates discuss Columbia bus system By Missourian staff March 26, 2013 | 12:00 p.m. CDT COLUMBIA — Missourian reporters asked candidates for seats on the Columbia City Council nine standardized questions about city government issues. Here are their verbatim answers to a question about the Columbia bus system. City officials continue striving to find ways to improve Columbia Transit and to make the service more financially viable. What are your specific ideas for how to accomplish those goals? On The Watchword
Mayoral candidates
You can find audio files of the City Council candidates' answers to the Missourian's questions on our local government blog, The Watchword.
Bob McDavid: "We’re in the middle of a restructuring that — you know, I've started the FastCat loop. We now have funding for that from the public. We have Brookside students engaged in it, we have Stephens College on board with it. We’re going to press the Green and the Black and Gold route, that one that goes out to Grindstone, the apartments. We want to get all those apartments on board. And my central premise is every bit of funding we get from those routes is funding that we can defer into the core legacy routes in the the city, the ones that serve those who are either in the low-income group or disability group, those who actually need the service, or it’s not an option. So it’s about new revenue sources, it’s about moving subsidies to core routes."
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Sid Sullivan: "I think that's a work in progress. We really need to do the market study in terms of how we're organizing our transit system and how we're paying for it.
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