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County asks Gainesville to pause plan to insource paratransit, seeks study of impacts for unincorporated areas
Summary
Alachua County commissioners voted Aug. 26 to ask the City of Gainesville to pause its plan to terminate MV Transportation’s paratransit contract and requested staff and regional partners study how ending the contract would affect residents outside the city, especially people who rely on trips to dialysis and medical appointments.
Alachua County commissioners voted Aug. 26 to ask the City of Gainesville to pause plans to cancel MV Transportation’s Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit contract and directed staff to report back on how the change would affect residents in the county’s unincorporated areas and small towns.
The action followed public testimony from riders and advocates who said the contract change would cut transportation to essential medical care for people who live outside city limits. “This is going to have a serious very serious ramifications for both people the people who live within the city of Gainesville and outside of Alachua County because they will no longer have access to transportation to their medical appointments, whether it be to their doctors or to dialysis,…
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