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Interviewer Great. Gerry, Thank you so much for being here and talking with us. We really want to share these stories of transportation, whether it'd be you. Great your past experience or even your relatives that struggle with transportation. You know, when we were here before, you told us a lot of great information that I think the general cult and the Ring county transit and others need to know about.
Interviewer So first of all, How long have you been I have you been in a long time Ali o'leary resident or...
Sherry Taylor I've been a Lee resident all my life, but I've moved to Cleveland. I lived in Columbus. Where they have transportation? Yeah. Yeah.
Sherry Taylor And their bus has run 24 hours a day. Some of them, a lot of them do a lot of the ones that run are for work purposes. Mh. That run 24 hours. So they're on a bus line.
Sherry Taylor Some of them don't run 24 hours, but a lot of them do.
Interviewer Yeah. So what has been your experience with? You know, you've been to these places with transportation and now you come back to lauren county, how has that felt to you? Or.
Sherry Taylor When I first when Lc first started. Mh. It was great. Mh. The buses ran all the time.
Sherry Taylor They ran later. People were getting back and forth the were, they had the connector piece, like, for people who had appointments in Cleveland that you could catch the bus so far and then the leave when bus to come pick you up and bring you back there, and then all of a sudden, everything just changed. So now buses are running every other hour which makes it hard for people to get because especially in the summertime or the wintertime. They can't just set out there. They'll either freeze it death, or they'll end up having asthma attack a heat stroke.
Sherry Taylor Mh. And then now people can't get back and forth to work because the bus only run to a certain time or So that costs a lot of jobs being lost, A lot of people being homeless, and nobody wants to ride the bus anymore.
Interviewer You told us that experience about what you have to do on a daily base to help basis to help your niece. Can you tell us Yeah. They the friendly all.
Sherry Taylor They don't have a bus that runs early in the morning. She has to be at Ride at 4 in the morning. There is a bus that goes to Ride down, but that's not till, like, later in the afternoon. It's 1 bus. And then she also has a friend who lives by the college.
Sherry Taylor By lauren County. Yeah. And there's no bus that runs out there early in the morning.
Interviewer And she also works at right now.
Sherry Taylor Yes. And she walks every day to work. And by time I get off at 01:30, there's not even a bus that goes past there in North ritual for them to get back. So she has to walk home in the heat. Mh.
Sherry Taylor Yeah. And it's she... And they're even having a bus to take my knee home. She lives, on Colonial oaks. Oh, yeah.
Sherry Taylor And there's no bust of once out there. My sister, I have my sister. She's a little bit younger than me. She's trying to get a job. She lives over by the mall.
Sherry Taylor Mh. And she doesn't even see buses that come over there, but maybe once or twice a day if that. And that not early enough to get her to work or home from work.
Interviewer Come what in what hours are you talking about?
Sherry Taylor Well, my niece and my... And her friend worked 4 to 01:34 in the morning to 01:30 in the afternoon. My sister works 13. So she works 11 at 9 to 7 in the morning. And see that you...
Sherry Taylor When I started working when I came back to ul ale, they did have a bus that ran at night they would pick everybody up by the mall, and they... Like, you could find if you could find a way to the mall or whatever, they would pick you up by the mall, or pick you up, if they were going by where they were dropping people off. And they would actually had a bus that literally drop people off at work. Mh. Like, right in front of the building
Interviewer or So we're here at har plaza right now. What are the struggles that you see with some of your fellow residents that they have?
Sherry Taylor That they're... Like, they would like to catch the bus, but they can't sit outside and wait for 2 hours for a bus. They do have Peg... Here. I've never took in took it, but I see them pick people up here.
Sherry Taylor But what if they're people that can't afford it. Mh. You know, are they gonna get it for free. Because people have doctor's appointments and then provide a ride, you take them to the doctors and that's through your insurance company where they offer transportation. You're getting there on time, but you're having to wait 2 or 3 hours for a ride home, and that kills the rest of your day.
Sherry Taylor What if you have another appointment you have to get to. And you're late for it, and it's a, you know, a life or death appointment that you need to get to or, you know, you have to make sure that your bills are paid or go to the grocery store.
Interviewer Right. So we're here Car plaza is in Ale malaria. Do you see where people struggle with getting Act? Access to groceries or food?
Sherry Taylor Yeah. Because the only thing is the corner store. If they don't set up peg is, how are they gonna get to go get food, A lot of people go to the corner store and spend spend their food stamps at the corner store to eat every day.
Interviewer And that's expensive
Sherry Taylor Very expensive. It costs 6 dollars for a sandwich there. A It costs like 4... It's 6 dollars over there for a gallon of orange juice.
Interviewer Do do you think you guys know about the route maps for the bus? Or... I mean, do people not know?
Sherry Taylor I don't think people know. Okay. Alright. I don't think there's...
Interviewer So that's why they're sitting out there because
Sherry Taylor Yeah. Because they don't know. They don't know. There's is... Nothing posted in here, but Peg is and what time a Lc can come?
Sherry Taylor That you have to set up that I think, I don't know if it's free or if you have to pay for it, but it's only twice a month. And it takes you where you need to go, but say you're not a early writer or you forget. You know, there's a lot of people that are... You know, forget things. You're sp screwed unless you know somebody.
Sherry Taylor So what improvements do you believe me
Interviewer to be made here in Lorraine County earning transportation, you know, whether it be... Transit or something else?
Sherry Taylor I believe that they need to have the buses back running every hour instead of every other hour because that would create a lot more jobs for people. And people would be able to get on their feet, they would be homeless They could take care of their kids. They need to have start start earlier in the morning. They need to, you know, run later at night because I think the last bus is, like at what, 3 or 4? 6.
Sherry Taylor At 6.
Interviewer But that's... It depends on...
Sherry Taylor But that... Yeah. But that's I guaranteed that. Okay. So I catch the bus buy here.
Sherry Taylor Right. Let me say, okay. I'm in Lorraine and I need cash. The bus back here with the last bus ones on Ali lee. How you gonna get home?
Sherry Taylor You don't have money for a taxi. You don't have especially if you're new to the neighborhood, How are you supposed to get around where you don't know where nut knit and you don't know nobody. Mh. Like if my niece didn't have me, should be literally screwed right now. And she's only 19 years old.
Sherry Taylor Mh. Yeah. Yeah. So... Right they know they have, like, meetings to, like, educate, like, educate people on, you know, how the bus runs and you know, what what they offer or, you know, other help that people can get with transportation, especially, like I said, if they're low income, and they don't have the money,
Interviewer What what other situations do you see with with your... Your residents, your fellow residence is it just access to medical and food?
Sherry Taylor Well medical food, just getting out and being able to, like, go somewhere. You know what I'm saying? A lot of these people, I see sit I hear a sitting I'm here or I haven't even... I haven't been even... I don't even know a lot of people in this building because you never seen them out of their apartment.
Sherry Taylor And Because, you know, why it come out and sit in the heat or sitting the cold. And, you know, if they had a bust. They knew what time or they couldn't have a bust like, in Cleveland, they have a bus. It's called a trial. Mh that'll come people up and, you know, drop them up downtown to, you know, hear the music or at when they have vendors down there and, you know, activities and stuff like that.
Sherry Taylor That's important to people, especially older people. Because what do they wanna do... And their apartment well away. Mh Transportation, they can get jobs. They can go see their family.
Sherry Taylor They can go to the grocery store they can book at their medication. They can live like, to where they don't, they're just gonna sit an their apartment and book away and not have communication when nobody no contact, they're gonna become a hermit. Yeah. Yeah.
Interviewer And what is... What do you think that that does her a person?
Sherry Taylor I think it makes them depressed. They can end up killing yourself. They can end up hurting in yourself. They could just end up just... They could be dead in the apartment and want nobody know.
Sherry Taylor Yeah. Yeah. So are
Interviewer any other thoughts about, you know, transportation here, in Lauren County either for yourself or...
Sherry Taylor They just need to start educated people out when the buses run. They need to start letting the buses run more and when they do that, they need to talk with people... Well they need to have, like, monthly meetings Thing. Okay Well, reach an add Okay. Well, we can go from this hour...
Sherry Taylor From this time to this time where we can run the buses every hour. And then let people know that. Okay. Well, the buses are running from 2 to 6 every hour, You know, Or we could start picking up earlier in the morning. You know, start letting people know the changes that are gonna be made and talk to more people, you know, not just in the buildings, but like, outside, you know, see people that catch the buses and ask them, you know, what would what would be better for you at but at the buses ran how.
Sherry Taylor You know, they need to get more acknowledgment from people. Some of a lot of them the Lc are wheelchair accessible, but a lot of people in wheelchairs don't know that. Oh. Okay. Okay.
Sherry Taylor That's good. So the some of the bus outs that they do may have that they still you uk First of all, they have all these bus stubs that people go to that aren't in use anymore. Those mean to be taken down because you could be standing out there for hours and hours and hours. And the when... What if you have your kids with you and it's dead dead winter.
Sherry Taylor You're standing there for nothing. Oh. And then like I said, they have bus stops where people are standing and waiting on the bus and the bus doesn't come. Yeah. And the bus of you, they still go on to Avon?
Sherry Taylor Yeah. There's a lot of people that lost a lot of jobs out there too. They stay the Bus go to Avon, Ob overland, and North Ridge. Just like they had the Cleveland connector. This the Lc.
Sherry Taylor Yeah. Because I used to have to go out there for testing. I could get on the bus, and it was nice because I could transfer I could buy all day pass and Lc, transferred to the cod, and the code would honor my print my my all day bus pass with my transfer and give me all day bus pass for Cleveland. I could go kick and go to my appointments and go see people I know out there and family and kick it, and then get back on the code. I think the last connector running at, like, 08:00 at night.
Sherry Taylor Yeah. I hop back up on the bus and come back on. Yep. Okay. Well we appreciate your your welcome on
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