LIFTS: Lifeplan Improvement through Feasible Transportation Services
We all know "the shortest distance between two points is a straight line." But we also know the feeling of seeing our destination just across the freeway and no way to get there.
Good News! LIFTS has arrived to help you take some of the twists and turns out of your daily life activities. LIFTS uses an online mapping application to help you find the most direct route of travel to your daily destinations. Loaded with information, LIFTS website can locate housing, businesses, childcare, bus routes and much more.
For example:
Imagine that you are a single parent with two pre-schoolers living in low-income housing. Your aunt has agreed to provide childcare at no cost while you work. But the fixed bus route closest to your home goes between childcare and work! If you are dependent on public transportation, do you want to take the job? Or do you want to find different childcare? Or even move your home to a location closer to work or childcare?
Using LIFTS, you can find possible housing along a bus route or look for jobs in precise locations. You can use LIFTS to find that there is no bus route near your aunt's house at all and decide to use the neighborhood childcare co-operative. You now have information to help you in making these choices.
LIFTS can help you reduce transportation costs and/or shorten your travel time. The website and its user-friendly search options help you locate the information you need to plan your life's journey today and tomorrow!
