CARTA to Host Public Forum on Transportation

The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA) will host a meeting to receive public input on potential bus service in East Ridge.

The meeting is scheduled for Thursday, March 30 at the Community Center on Tombras Avenue. The meeting will begin at 6 p.m., officials said.

According to a press release from CARTA and the City of East Ridge, the purpose of the meeting is to get input from residents regarding their public transportation needs.

CARTA provided bus service to East Ridge for over 30 years, but due to limited funding the service was discontinued some time ago.

For more information regarding this meeting, please contact Veronica Peebles, CARTA’s Manager of Communications at (423) 629-1411, extension 122.

WHO: The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority (CARTA)

WHAT: Notice of public forum about public transportation service in East Ridge

WHEN: Thursday, March 30, 2017 from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: East Ridge Community Center, 1517 Tombras Avenue

About Dick Cook

Dick Cook has lived in East Ridge since the Kennedy Administration when his parents bought a house on Marietta Street. Dick graduated from ERHS in 1976 before going on to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga where he studied Political Science. Dick worked for the Chattanooga Free-Press and the Chattanooga Times Free Press for 22 years. Free-Press Sports Editor Roy Exum plucked him out of production in 1989 and gave him a job as a sports reporter. Dick covered everything from prep sports to the whitewater events on the Ocoee River for the 1996 Olympics. When Chattanooga's two paper's merged, he became the Crime Reporter covering both the Chattanooga Police and Fire Departments. He was among reporters who were honored by the Associated Press for the TFP's coverage of the 2002 fog-shrouded crash on I-75 in Catoosa County, Dick and his wife, Cathy, live on Marlboro Avenue where they are seen frequently chasing around their three grandsons.

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