City of Baltimore - File #: 05-0089R

• File #: 05-0089R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Do the New Bus Routes Meet the Mobility Needs of Older Baltimoreans?
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 9/26/2005
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Do the New Bus Routes Meet the Mobility Needs of Older Baltimoreans? FOR the purpose of requesting the Secretary of Transportation and the Maryland Transit Administrator to report to the City Council on the recent proposed changes to City bus routes to make certain that our seniors are able to safely and conveniently access public transportation sufficient to meet the needs of their social, business, cultural, and spiritual lives.
• Sponsors: Agnes Welch, President Dixon, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, President Young, James B. Kraft, Kenneth Harris, Belinda Conaway, Edward Reisinger, Helen L. Holton, Mary Pat Clarke, Paula Johnson Branch, Rochelle Spector
• Indexes: Bus, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/10/2006	0	The City Council	Reassigned
3/20/2006	0	Aging Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
2/28/2006	0	Aging Subcommittee	Scheduled for a Public Hearing
9/29/2005	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
9/26/2005	0	City Council	Introduced
9/26/2005	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Welch

A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
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Investigative Hearing - Do the New Bus Routes Meet the Mobility Needs of Older Baltimoreans?

FOR the purpose of requesting the Secretary of Transportation and the Maryland Transit Administrator to report to the City Council on the recent proposed changes to City bus routes to make certain that our seniors are able to safely and conveniently access public transportation sufficient to meet the needs of their social, business, cultural, and spiritual lives.
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The Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy of the Brookings Institution's publication The Mobility Needs of Older Americans: Implications for Transportation Reauthorization reports that in 2000, 35 million Americans, or 12.4 % of the total U.S. population, were over age 65, and almost 4.5 million, or 1.6% of the total population, were over age 85. Both the number of older people and their share of the population are growing rapidly, and, across the spectrum, older Americans will both create and face daunting transportation challenges.

The number of older Marylanders is also increasing. Of the nearly 5.3 million people in Maryland in 2000, 15% were over the age of 60. That percentage is expected to increase to 23% of Maryland's projected population of 6 million by the year 2030. The number of people over the age of 85 is the fastest growing segment of the population, growing statewide from 66,902 in 2000, to 168,...