October 30, 2015
The Montgomery County Council recently made $4 million in cuts to transportation services, including the elimination of proposed Ride On bus service to Tobytown that was scheduled to begin Oct. 1. Tobytown is a historically black and low-income mixed-housing development in affluent Potomac, just a couple of miles from Potomac Chase Estates, where I grew up and attended school with kids from Tobytown. Most of the 60 or so residents of Tobytown are descendants of the freedmen — former slaves — who founded the community in 1875.
Concealed in a grove off River Road near the C&O Canal, the community is a more-than-45-minute walk from the nearest bus stop on Travilah Road. Because several residents lack personal transportation — or the money to fuel their cars — many must tread the dangerously narrow thoroughfare on dark mornings just to get to the bus...... (The county cut an after-school program at the same time.)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-neighborhood-in-need-of-a-bus/2015/10/30/1b3428ea-7cd5-11e5-beba-927fd8634498_story.html
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