Transit Hostility Cost Sanford Reelection
Mark Sanford, June 9 Summerville Farmers market Soon to be former Congressman Mark Sanford introduced three bills in the US Congress to defund public Transit. He never came to the support of CARTA or Tri County Link when seeking federal funds for local transit projects. The critical Bus Rapid Transit project, with over 3 million dollars and twenty years of planning was stalled because everyone knew he wouldn't support getting federal matching funds. The cost of Sanford's twenty years indifference to the Lowcountry's growing mobilty deficit and traffic congestion only began to tell when local transit advocates first with Hungryneck Straphangers, later with Best Friends of Lowcountry Transit (both nonprofits) and finally with Political Action Committee Up is Good, began to inform the public of what Sanford's actions were costing them. Transit Education at Citadel Mall Bus Stop, 6:15 am The Lowcountry, conservative and liberal, rich and poor, and black, white a