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Mar 13, 2021
COLUMBUS As COVID-19 vaccination efforts ramp up across Ohio, the Ohio Department of Transportation is providing extra funding to help local transit agencies and health departments to ensure all eligible Ohioans can get to vaccination sites.
“We want to make sure all Ohioans who want the vaccine have equal ability to get the vaccine,” said Gov. Mike DeWine. “Equity includes having access to transportation services.”
The Rides for Community Immunity program will provide $7 million distributed across all 88 counties to help get Ohio’s most vulnerable populations transportation to vaccine locations.
For the 70 counties that have public transit programs, ODOT will be awarding the funds directly to public transit agencies.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio Laketran will provide free transportation between Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center mass COVID-19 vaccination site and Laketran’s new Frank J. Polivka Transit Center at Lakeland Community College, starting Wednesday. That is the first day vaccinations will be administered at the Wolstein Center. The vaccination shuttle will run Monday-Friday between 8:15 a.m. and .