June 27, 2013
Volunteers Needed new
Posted by: birendrakunwar ()
Date: June 27, 2013 12:49PM
Fairfax County needs volunteers to drive older adults to medical appointments throughout the county. Contact Fairfax County's Volunteer Solutions at 703-324-5406, TTY 703-449-1186,
VolunteerSolutions@fairfaxcounty.gov , or visit Volunteer Solutions at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/olderadults and click on volunteers.
Conversation: I think it's going to be tough to find volunteers to do this very large task.
Fairfax County needs more innovative thinking on creating a "Paratransit Project", perhaps a variation of Arlington County has for seniors and handicaps with supplmental for others who may need and be willing to pay a bit more .
I had suggested such a "paratransit" demo project, funded by a foundation at a DOT event in Washington DC a year ago.
There was a representative from a Foundation at this meeting who told us that he would love to get proposals based on "success model" such as I had identified.
SO, such a "paratransit" demo can be done in Fairfax, with funding from a qualified foundation and combined with other "proven" paratransits that exist elsewhere, even the one at Houston, TX that is totally "private" but a bit expensive and very large, as Houston and the surrounding area is pretty large equivalent to designing something for the whole Washington DC Metro that would not be our goal. Just restrict such to our own community, Fairfax COunty, USA