Five days a week, Sidney McDonald boards a bus that delivers him, electric wheelchair and all, from his doorstep to his job at City Hall.
That trip, on Chattanooga’s Care-a-Van service, costs him $2.50 each way. Then there’s the trip home, or to his second job as a ticket taker at a downtown movie theater.
“I got a social life, too, so,” McDonald said in an interview.
So, it adds up.
But the price McDonald pays for his transportation, heavily subsidized by the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, including money from local, state and federal governments, could soon be going up.