Age-Friendly Transportation Solutions
Helping older adults and nondrivers get where they need and want to go is a key priority of the towns, cities and counties in the AARP Network of Age-Friendly States and Communities. Here are several examples of creative solutions.

Volunteers from the STARS transportation service

Sisters, Oregon

The all-volunteer "STARS" team is providing non-emergency medical rides to residents who are unable to drive themselves.

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Montclair, New Jersey

This New York City suburb has trains and buses for getting into Manhattan but had no transit options for older residents to travel around town.

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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina

The area's bus drivers receive training for how to serve passengers who are living with dementia.

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A graphic that reads, "lets walk and roll!"

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Video snippets feature examples from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas.

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The next issue of the AARP Livable Communities Newsletter will be published on October 15.

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