Against the Trolley Trial

Marco Island Residents:  Please join me in expressing your opposition to funding a trial of a trolley service to provide greater access to our beaches, which will bring additional off-island traffic and result in congestion on our roadways. 

Even though this plan was previously rejected by Council, with rigorous opposition from a packed Chamber of their constituents, including myself, it has been brought back and approved at first reading at the last Council meeting.  Key reasons for not moving forward on this include:   

• It will increase traffic of visitors from the massive developments outside of Marco  

• No specific criteria for evaluating the trial have been communicated 

• There are no plans to survey the residents to find out if they support providing a trolley at all 

• Also, the trial will be free for riders, so this will not indicate any willingness to pay a fare in the future 

• I also don’t believe that many residents will want to walk to a bus strop to get around the island 

Please express your view on this to Council on or before their 9/23 meeting where the final approval of this trial is on the Agenda.