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

Mark Sanford just sent out an email about hurricane preparations .   Like last weeks disastrously incomplete State Hurricane Preparation Guide Sanford’s email ignores the reality that tens of thousands of people living in his district don’t have access to an automobile to evacuate. On Tuesday, June 12 Change your Congressman. One telling paragraph indicates how completely blind Sanford remains to the struggle some people in the Lowcountry have to merely get to their employment or medical appointments on a good day, much less evacuate their families and belongings before an oncoming storm. Someone on Sanford’s staff writes (and he presumably approved) “ Keep your automobile fully fueled; if electric power is cut off, gas stations may not be able to operate pumps for several days.” Evidently it never occurred to anyone on Sanford’s staff that thousands of people don’t have an automobile to fuel for a quick run up to Asheville or Atlanta to escape the storm. Like last y

Field outreach workers with Lowcountry Up is Good, PAC began voter contact regarding support of better transit and Dimitri Cherny and opposing reelection of Transit hostile Mark Sanford in the June 12 Republican Primary on June 12. Transit reduces congestion Over 750 citizens have had face to face contact at locations in Charleston, James Island, Folly Beach and Mount Pleasant. 170 people participating in the June 5 Transportation meeting in Mt. Pleasant, a community reeling from a three-week localized economic contraction which devastated locally owned (often Republican owned) businesses when the Westbound Wando Bridge was Closed to Traffic. Some people contacted are making their own copies of the simple black and white cards (PDF) and handing copies out to friends. One owner of a food and beverage-oriented delivery service downtown met on King Street said traffic congestion is increasing his costs for staff, fuel and reducing the number of deliveries he can make

Low country Up is Good, Inc. is a Political Action Committee currently being reactivated for the 2018 election cycle. It focuses on four issues with which the SC Lowcountry is currently engaged in a frustrating struggle: affordable housing, functional public transit, a living wage and maintaining a trained cadre of change makers. How We Got Started 2016 In the 2016 election cycle a group of activists working with the Bernie Sanders campaign concluded that working for effective change in the local political environment required an organization which dealt with a group of systemic issues: poor transit, low wages, lack of affordable housing and the need for a new type of local activist leader operating independently of the established party system. Affordable Housing Our first project was construction of the Tiny House Fit for a King on Martin Luther King Weekend, 2016 which produced an 8 x 12-foot electrified tiny house. After a long struggle with official hostility, cloaked behi

Vote For Better Transit in SC1 Tues., June 12 Revised June 10 #2 Espress Westbound on the Ravenel.Bridge Updated- June 11, 2018 Anyone can vote in the primary of any political party in SC.* You can vote in the open Republican primary for better transit.  Choose challenger Cherney over transit hostile incumbent Mark Sanford. Reach Other Voters-   Help elect a Transit positive Congressperson. Download and print these SC1 information cards for your friends, neighbors and fellow transit riders. Mark Sanford Tried to Bankrupt Public Transit On May 4, 2017, Sanford asked Congress to approve HR 2391 ,  which would take 1/3rd of CARTA and Tri County Link’s funding away,  ending over half of our bus service. Sanford has taken no steps to obtain Federal Funding for the planned Lowcountry rapid transit system to speed up transit  and relieve traffic congestion. See a video on how Bus Rapid Transit works around the world . Without 140 million in federal matching funds t