YET ANOTHER TRANSPORTATION SERVICE IN COUNTY

Within a span of a few days, Miki Gudermuth resigned from the Cape Girardeau County Transit Advisory Committee and announced that SADI, the organization she directs, will start a transportation service of its own for disabled people.

SADI, which stands for SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence, is operating that service with a donated van and start-up money from Missouri Department of Transportation, the Area Wide United Way and other agencies. Gudermuth said the service is needed because the Cape Girardeau taxi service sometimes is too slow to respond to calls for taxis by disabled persons.

Gudermuth raised some good points in her letter of resignation from the transit advisory committee. She wrote, "After 10 years of talking about transportation issues, four years of study, including that of the regional planning commission, the transit authority does not know how to put closure to advice and action into planning."

The county for years has studied public transportation in this county to death but has yet to do anything to try to coordinate all of transportation services operating in the county. And it continues to study the issue.