Connect Future Lowcountry Transit to the Fairgrounds

 

Charleston, SC, USA- At the October CARTA Board Meeting, Ron Mitchum, Executive Director of the Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester Council of Governments reported that an agreement on placing a stop at the Fairgrounds for our planned Lowcountry Rapid Transit System had not been reached.  The exact nature of the reason why this has not been accomplished during the Eight years that the system has been in planning at a cost of over Five Million Dollars was not fully explained.  

Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit will mobilize transit riders and supporters to encourage the Exchange Club and associated organizations connected with the management of the Fairgrounds to move quickly to resolve this important issue during this year’s Coastal Carolina Fair, scheduled to begin Friday.

Members of the organization will be asked to hand in forms showing their support for a stop at the fairgrounds and an online petition will be run, which will be delivered to the Exchange Club at the end of this year’s Coastal Carolina Fair. Links to the form can be accessed from the group’s facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/BFLowcountryTransit online.

The Form and petition read:

“As a patron of the Coastal Carolina Fair, I would like to be able to travel to and from our region’s fairgrounds by Public Transit using the planned Lowcountry Rapid Transit System.

I am disappointed that an agreement has not yet been reached to build a transit station at the Fairgrounds to serve the community, make this location more valuable to the region, increase fair revenue for local charitable causes and to reduce traffic congestion associated with events held there.

Please work diligently to reach agreement with local governments so we can all move forward quickly to the day when everyone will be able to reach the fair without fighting traffic including the disabled, elderly, those without access to automobiles and those who prefer not to drive.”

For more information, contact
William J. Hamilton, III
Ex. Dir. Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit
wjhamilton29464@gmail.com, (843) 870-5299