Transit is a Small-Town Value

Wexford County in the northwest Lower Peninsula of Michigan has about 33,500 residents across it’s 575 square miles. The WexExpress, the county’s transit system, provided 155,000 rides last year alone… and that number is rising.

Parents use it take toddlers to Head Start programs. Teens take it to class and after-school activities. Adults take it for manufacturing jobs. Seniors take it to get to the doctor’s. All sorts of people take it for appointments and fun trips and rides home from the bar. It’s for everyday life.

Carrie Thompson, executive director of WexExpress joined Common Groundwater to discuss the unique needs a rural county like Wexford has, how transit serves them and what challenges still exist. Transit is a small-town value.

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To learn more about the WexExpress and its programs, go to wexexpress.us. To help expand funding for WexExpress and the transit agency that serves you, click here.

Common Groundwater is hosted by the Michigan Environmental Council and Beau Brockett Jr.

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