The City of Lawrence is seeking feedback from residents on two options for a long-awaited redesign of the city’s bus routes, both of which include Uber-like “microtransit” options, though with different ideas for how that service would function. Both scenarios call for a traditional network of bus routes that is complemented by microtransit service, according to information in a city survey about the routes. The survey says microtransit is an app-based service that operates like Uber and Lyft but utilizes transit-specific vehicles and offers affordable and predictable fares. To be most productive, microtransit trips must be kept relatively short, and the city asks residents to provide feedback on two ways for structuring the service to accomplish that.
Source: LJWorld.com.

In the face of lower vaccination rates among Lawrence police officers when compared to other local first responders, the city’s police union says it respects officers’ right not to get vaccinated. As the Journal-World recently reported, though the City of Lawrence has seen a significant increase in the vaccination rates among employees since announcing a new testing and leave policy a month ago, numbers show there are notable differences among the vaccination rates of the community’s first responders.
Source: LJWorld.com.

Standing high about the skyline of downtown, “Mural at the Mill,” the latest piece in the Salina Kanvas Project is now complete. The mural, which was placed on the 100-foot tall H.D. Lee Flour Mill on North Santa Fe Avenue, was completed by Guido Van Helten of Australia, who has done similar, large-scale projects around the world. The Kanvas Project was the vision of Travis Young, CEO of Vortex Global. He said the hope is that the work done will be something to bring more murals and street art to the downtown area and to Salina as a whole. “We want Salina to be a destination versus a spot to fill up with gas along the interstate”, Young said on the project’s website. “This will help bolster business opportunities and support the amazing institutions we already have here in Salina.”
Source: Salina Journal.

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