Sussex Senior Transportation Cooperative coming in 2015
Dr. Nancy Feichtl, founder of the Sussex Senior Transportation Cooperative, said Sussex County is heading for a huge transportation problem with so many seniors living here and many needing rides to medical appointments, shopping trips and other activities. She told the Lewes-Rehoboth Rotary about a transportation solution for Delaware’s huge aging population.
Sussex Senior Transportation Corporative will support sustainable, community-based transportation services for seniors throughout the county by building a senior transportation network. Across America, communities large and small are struggling to meet the transportation needs of seniors, and Sussex County’s challenge may be bigger than most, because of its large senior population.
This service will be an affiliate of ITNAmerica and be called ITNSouthernDelaware. "ITNAmerica is a nonprofit organization with over 6,500 members in 25 affiliates throughout the country," said Feichtl.
ITNSouthernDelaware will answer the following questions: How to provide the kind of door-through-door service older people want and need in regular cars; how to recruit enough volunteer drivers/riders and how to manage insurance;how to arrange rides, especially in rural and suburban communities; and how to pay for it all. After it gets launched, it will be financially self-sustaining via membership/ridership fees.
