In today’s Portland Press Herald, John T. Gorman Foundation Senior Program Associate Leigh Arsenault and consultant Kate Reilly make the case for why the widespread lack of access to transportation in Maine holds back families and our economy — and what we can do about it.

“Like housing and child care, lack of transportation access in Maine deserves our attention. To build a stronger future, we need to ensure more people can connect to opportunity. Achieving this will require collaboration and innovation, but, working together, we can get there.”

Read the full op-ed here as well as the Foundation’s recent report — Moving Toward Solutions: Addressing the Transportation Challenges of Maine Families.