Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands - Part 3
From: WCAI / WNAN
Series: Two Cape Cods: Hidden Poverty on the Cape and Islands
Length: 04:48
Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.
Part 3 -- Transportation in Truro
Without reliable public transportation, working poor cannot access the job opportunities and public services they direly need.
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Each story is set in one of the fifteen towns on Cape Cod and the islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. Part 3 -- Transportation in Truro Without reliable public transportation, working poor cannot access the job opportunities and public services they direly need.
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For more than twenty years, social services advocates have pushed for frequent and reliable public transportation on the lower and outer Cape. It's considered a key component of getting both the working poor and elderly the services they need. Public transportation continues to be a problem in places like Truro, but some progress is being made.
It's a fairly warm day for early March, but 70-year-old Truro resident Bill Worthington can't get the side door of his Isuzu pick-up truck unlocked. It's frozen shut.
Late last year, Worthington lost his drivers license after he wrecked on the side of the road. His Isuzu has sat cold in the driveway ever since.
Bill Worthington: "I lost my drivers license in November because my diabetes acted up, I wasn't in good control, and my blood sugar got very low, and I, thank god, did not hurt anybody, didn't damage anybody's cars, but I just had...
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