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What do bus routes have to do with graduation rates? Perhaps more than you think

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published March 27, 2019 at 11:45 AM CDT

The Duluth Transit Authority is holding a public meeting this afternoon (Wednesday, March 27) at 1:30pm to talk about their plan to shut down three of their routes.

But one of those routes is the only one that climbs the long steep hill hill to the new Lincoln Park Middle School and some people think it's more than a conversation about an unprofitable route.

They think, for an area where 28% of residents don't have access to a vehicle, and over one in five have a disability of some kind, it's a conversation about equity.

More information about the DTA Open House this afternoon can be found here. Another route, Lakeside to Miller Hill Mall via UMD (Route 21) is also scheduled to be discontinued June 2.

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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