CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, April 5 - April 11, 1996- 19
DRT supporters call for more bus stops, longer season
By Michael Short
Delaware Resort Transit (DRT)
got a modest turnout on March 29
for a public hearing on bus service
planned in the Cape area this sum-
mer.
Only about ten people showed
up for the hearing and the most
common objection was that there
just was not enough of a good
thing.
Karen Zakarian, the director of
sales for Ruddertowne, asked for
extended service through Septem-
ber. She said that September
brings a host of special events in-
cluding racing at Dover Downs,
the fireman's convention which
attracts 900 people to the Rudder-
towne complex and a realtor's
convention, which attracts another
600 people to the complex.
"The entire town has worked so
hard to get people here. Let's im-
press them while they're here."
Jim Cresson, president of the
Long Neck Business Association,
said his association supports plans
to run bus service between Long
Neck and Rehoboth Beach. But he
asked that the service be extended
into September instead of ending
with the Labor Day weekend.
Dennis Diehl of Rehoboth
Beach asked for more bus stops in
Rehoboth Beach. He also asked
that the parking lot at Gordon's
Pond at the southern tip of Cape
Henlopen State Park be consid-
ered as a site for bus service.
Diehl said bus service could be
provided from that lot, which he
feels is not heavily used. "Start
moving people around so they
don't have to move their cars," he
said after the hearing.
Specifically, Diehl suggested
that the following stops be added
to the bus service in town: Wilm-
ington Trust, the Sea Horse,
Quillen's Hardware and the
Chamber of Commerce (there are
already bus stops at Convention
Hall, Rehoboth Library and the
Rehoboth Boardwalk).
DRT plans for this summer are
expected to be finalized in a few
weeks after the comments from
Friday's hearing are taken into
consideration.
Those plans call for three new
bus routes into the Reh0both area
from Georgetown, Long Neck and
Fenwick Island with plans due to
be finalized before Memorial Day
weekend.
DRT officials said they were
pleased at the lack of criticism
during the Friday meeting in Re-
FEHRENBACH'S CARPET PLUS
Collection agency of
cities' fines cleared
T.D. Nottingham & Associates
of Camden-Wyoming, which Re-
hoboth Beach, Lewes and
Bethany Beach have contracted to
collect overdue parking fines, has
been cleared of allegations that it
improperly handled money.
Stanley Friedman, the state's
Department of Justice director of
investigations, said that following
a six-month investigation, there
was no indication that the owner,
Theresa Dabson, had improperly
mishandled money.
His office had received a com-
plaint from a disgruntled former
employee that Dabson had been
illegally retaining some of the re-
covered funds it was supposed to
turn over to the cities.
Rehoboth awards bid on
Baltimore Ave. storm drain
Despite concerns that the work
will impede businesses on Balti-
more Avenue, Rehoboth Beach
Commissioners on April 1 award-
ed a bid to A. P. Croll to construct
a storm drain in the first block of
Baltimore Avenue and intersec-
tion at First Street, as well as an
alternate bid for half of the second
block. Of the total $178,000 cost,
$75,000 will come from the state
bond bill, with an additional
$15,000 from street aid funds,
leaving the city $56,000 short.
However, City Manager Greg Fer-
rese contacted State Sen. Richard
Cordrey late last week and asked
he authorize an additional $56,000
to complete the entire project.
Ferrese learned April 1 that the
money was allocated to the city,
which will now only pay $46,000.
Ferrese told the board the work
will commence immediately and
be completed before Memorial
Day, although be believes they
will finish by May 1. A few board
members said they fear that the
work will disrupt business activity
along that stretch, but Ferrese said
the construction is done a section
at a time and the street will not be
closed to traffic O r parking.
Please Re-Elect
LEWES BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Saturday, April 6, 1996 * 8 A.M. - 6 P.M.
• 20 years experience as a member of Lewes
BPW.
* Common sense approach to operation of
electric, sewer, water departments.
Favors purchase of two more large
generators to give Lewes electric self-
sufficiency in the event of a major storm.
"We just quietly get the job done and give
residents of Lewes some of the lowest utility
rates available anywhere."
VOTE APR
"Your Support Is Greatly Appreciated"
Paid For By Friends of Mike Hill
hoboth Beach. Bobbi Geier of
DRT said that it is a challenge to
try to increase service while still
staying within budget and Brett
Schmidt of DRT noted tht ser-
vice has been expanded while the
budget.has remained the same as
last year's budget.
"This is encouraging to see such
support of transit in an area that
doesn't have a lot of transit,"
Geier said.
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