At a meeting convened by Together Baton Rouge and the Baton Rouge Food Access Commission, TBR leaders announced a new limited-stop route to run Saturdays from 'food deserts' to grocery stores as a temporary measure to ensure access to healthy food. Asked Tamika Porter, "If there's such a thing as Whole Food, then what am I giving my children? Half food?"
Capital Area Transit System (CATS) CEO committed to providing the new Saturday bus route by June 2015. He also promised to re-evaluate every route to ensure that buses are stopping at at grocery stores where possible.
EBR Officials Seek to Address 'Food Deserts' in Poor Neighborhoods, The Advocate
New Bus Routes and Financial Incentives Among the Strategies to Address Baton Rouge's 'Food Deserts', Times Picayune
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