County Executive Candidates Forum August 30, 2010

Riders To Bring Back The Daily Lakewood Circulator is sponsoring a Candidates Forum on Monday, August 30, at 7pm. The forum will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room of the Main Branch of the Lakewood Public Library at 15425 Detroit Avenue.

All Cuyahoga County Executive candidates have been invited to discuss and answer questions on how they would improve the Cleveland Regional Transit System (RTA) and whether the medical mart slated to be built in downtown Cleveland is a questionable or even unacceptable deal that should be cancelled to free up the county sales tax earmarked for its erection. And whether some of that county sales tax freed up should be used to restore RTA bus service and lower bus fares.

RTA now runs a much reduced Lakewood Circulator bus, which is subsidized by the City of Lakewood. This Circulator runs only on Friday afternoons, just every 90 minutes, one direction only, and does not stop at all RTA bus stops. Since it has been designed to accommodate everyone it is so inconvenient that it really does not serve anyone properly, thus very few people ride it.

What is really needed is a seven-day Lakewood Circulator running at least every hour in both directions as it had been before RTA eliminated it without any consideration to its ridership. Riders To Bring Back The Daily Circulator has been and still is fighting hard to have the daily Circulator brought back. Riders To Bring Back The Daily Circulator needs your help in its struggle to restore the very much needed daily Lakewood Circulator. Please call Riders To Bring Back The Daily Circulator at (216) 221-2724 to help in this valiant endeavor.