{"id":36224,"date":"2022-05-30T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=36224"},"modified":"2022-05-30T13:20:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T17:20:32","slug":"supply-chain-issues-are-taking-a-toll-on-transit-in-cobb-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=36224","title":{"rendered":"Supply chain issues are taking a toll on transit in Cobb County"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/2021\/11\/09\/the-road-to-ending-supply-chain-problems-may-start-in-savannah\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"30410\">Supply chain<\/a> issues involving vehicle manufacturers and parts suppliers have left CobbLinc\u2019s Paratransit system depleted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to county officials, most of the fleet is past its useful life and parts can\u2019t be found to fix those in the garage<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To address the problem, CobbLince purchased 22 replacement vehicles that were due last December, but they have now been delayed another 18 to 24 months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The county is renting 14 vehicles from contractor First Transit and has borrowed several vans from Cobb\u2019s Senior Services to join the fleet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>County officials say these temporary vehicles should be hitting the streets this week to help bring the Paratransit fleet back up to speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cobbcounty.org\/transportation\/transit\/paratransit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.cobbcounty.org\/transportation\/transit\/paratransit<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n[mailerlite_form form_id=7]\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply chain issues involving vehicle manufacturers and parts suppliers have left CobbLinc\u2019s Paratransit system depleted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[8486,11620,8473,10374],"class_list":["post-36224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-traffic","tag-cobb-county","tag-cobblinc","tag-media","tag-supply-chain","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}