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Hinesburg Rides
Hinesburg Rides is all about community-based transportation — neighbors helping and working with neighbors. It is a program designed to address the wide range of transportation needs of all Hinesburg residents, employees, and employers.

It is a proven fact that transportation is an issue in Hinesburg. A small group of volunteers has been working with various transportation providers and organizations toward a solution to this problem.
 Hinesburg Rides

· Town of Hinesburg
· On-The-Go Transportation
· Local churches
· Chittenden County Metropolitan Planning Organization (CCMPO)
· Chittenden County Transportation Authority (CCTA)
· Special Service Transportation Agency (SSTA)
· Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans)
· Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR)
· And various other organizations


Hinesburg Rides includes three components:
  1. The Volunteer Driver Program

    • This program is intended to meet the needs of all Hinesburg residents by providing rides to doctors’ appointments, therapy, grocery store, post office, bank, and other approved needs. To date, a small group of Hinesburg residents have agreed to use their own cars to provide needed transportation. If you would like to become a volunteer driver, or if you need a ride, or know of someone who does, call to arrange for transportation.

          Karla Munson at 482-2778
          email: mumsie@gmavt.net
              or
          SSTA at 878-1527

  2. Commuter Carpool Program

    • Nearly half of the carbon emissions from the state of Vermont come from the transportation sector, and the majority of that comes out of the tailpipes of cars carrying one person at a time. Many of us are concerned about the impacts of our driving on traffic congestion, air quality, and climate change. Our household budgets have been squeezed by increased gas prices. What can we do? Join the Hinesburg Rides carpool program. Call or email:

          Ed Sengle at 482-3917
          esengle@gmavt.net

      Include name, address, phone numbers (work/home/cell) contact information, email, work address, time you leave home and time you leave work. We will be working to create innovative ways to make carpooling convenient, efficient and safe.

  3. Local Employer Transportation Program

    • We will be working with local employers to coordinate various low-cost initiatives for providing better commuting options, i.e., vans, carpooling, bus, etc. These initiatives will help protect our environment, reduce cost of travel, and enable employers to employ and retain employees. Hopefully, this program will help pave the way for public transportation by CCTA. For more information call:

          Karla Munson at 482-2778
          mumsie@gmavt.net

To date, funding for Hinesburg Rides has come from a “United We Ride” grant and a SCHIP grant. We will continue to apply for grants when available.

Please consider what you can do to help support Hinesburg Rides. All donations are tax deductible and checks should be made out to the Hinesburg Community Resource Center, with Hinesburg Rides noted in the memo section.

Mail Contributions to:

Hinesburg Rides
PO Box 444
Hinesburg VT 05461
 
 

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Founded 1762
 
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