Richmond Free Press December 26-28, 2013 A5
By Joey Matthews
The excitement about riding a city shuttle
to buy groceries at Walmart has quickly faded
— even more so after the ride stopped being
free.That’s why the city’s two-year, $153,000
experiment of taking low-income residents,
particularly from public housing communities,
on shopping trips to the city’s only Walmart
on South Side is over.The shuttle service ended Saturday as a failure,
an embarrassment for Mayor Dwight C. Jones,
who had made this initiative a centerpiece of
his anti-poverty fight.
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Mayor ends Walmart shuttle
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