You’re Giving More Than A Ride
Every day, CART helps seniors get to medical appointments, workers reach their jobs, and families access essential services. CART ensures that no one is left behind.
Funding for rural transit is limited, and sustaining a service like CART takes the collective effort of everyone who benefits from it—directly or indirectly.
Will you donate today in support of public transportation for all the residents of Carbon County who need a ride? Thanks to the generous support of a local donor, all donations will be matched up to $10,000 through June 30th.
Your donation will directly improve the lives of your friends and neighbors while making a positive impact in your community because CART:
- contributes to economic growth.
- contributes to independence for our seniors and disabled residents.
- provides access to health care, education, and employment.
- makes our community stronger and more resilient.
- is knitting together the many separate small communities across Carbon County into a more integrated whole, in beneficial ways we’ve never experienced before.
Meet Steve Kuna, Your Belfry Neighbor
Steve Kuna lives in Belfry and has been using CART periodically for nearly two years. A jack-of-all-trades, Steve has been a baker, a painter, a warehouse worker, worked in a pawn shop, and even been an auctioneer. Riding with our Driver/Dispatcher, Karen Dietz, recently, Steve voiced an auctioneer’s chant to show Karen he was the real deal. “Being an auctioneer has been my favorite job.”
Steve has lived in Belfry for the last nine years. He likes the “smalltown feeling,” and says it reminds him of his youth. When his granddaughter had trouble finding a decent vehicle to buy, Steve gave his truck to her leaving him without transportation, but also without the expenses of owning a truck. That’s where CART comes in.
He saw a CART flyer in the local Post Office and reached out. “I can text them, and they’ll call me back with a timely ride right away,” he says about the CART transportation service.
CART Continues to Impact Lives
Laura Lee, a CART rider from Roberts, says, “I don’t know where I’d be without CART—if I didn’t have it, I’d be dependent on my daughter all the time, to pick up my prescriptions, or get my groceries for me. I know CART will be there for me with a ride when I need one, even if it’s going from Roberts to Joliet—they go way out of their way to help people all over the county. And they’re so friendly about it!”
Gina Lyannas, a CART rider from Bridger, says, “I didn’t really have anyone to help me,” she says. Riding CART, however, helped her meet a lot of new people that she befriended in her apartment complex and now rides with all the time. “The more able neighbors are just so eager to help me at a moment’s notice!”
CART Connects People to Their Community
CART is Community
