Ohio counties get funding boost to improve transit access to vaccination sites
âWe donât want transportation to be a barrier, and thatâs the bottom line.â
Funding for transit: Effort to get people to vaccination appointments By Brittany Harry | March 15, 2021 at 10:47 PM EDT - Updated March 16 at 5:36 PM
COLUMBUS, Ohio (FOX19) - The Ohio Department of Transportation is allocating $7 million to help people get to their COVID-19 vaccination appointments.
The money will be distributed among all 88 Ohio counties to help local transit agencies and health departments.
âThis program was really created because we were hearing there is a need from eligible Ohioans who were saying, âWe are eligible, we want the vaccine, but we donât have an automobile or any means of transportation to get us to one of the clinics,ââ ODOT spokesperson Matt Bruning said.
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Sheriff s Office introduces new location app
MARION - The Marion County Sheriff’s Office has become the first agency in Ohio to roll out What3Words, a location technology app to locate people who are lost or may not know where they are, so help can be sent.
What3Words has divided the world into a grid of 10’ X 10’ squares and given each square a unique what3words address. If someone calls in, for example, who has been involved in an accident and they don’t know where they are, dispatch can send them a mobile link through the sheriff s office texting 911 software. This link to the What3Words app will show on their phone, they can relay those words to the dispatcher and the dispatcher plugs those words into the app. Authorities will now know where that person is within 10 feet of their exact location. Emergency services then can be sent to render aid.
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