“If you keep moving forward, good things will come out.” “My thing is keep moving forward, don’t stop,” Wilkins said. She views the bus as part of a daily grind to get to a job she enjoys and where she earns $13.25 an hour. Instead, she played basketball and ran track for her high school team.
She was born with impaired vision and doctors feared she could become completely blind by the time she was a teenager. If she could, her 15-mile commute would take about 30 minutes. Wilkins, 36, is legally blind and doesn’t drive. Many mornings, she pops in earbuds to tune out noise with upbeat gospel music. When the 105 bus arrives at 5:40 a.m., she moves down the narrow aisle to the last row of seats. The yellow light from a streetlamp casts a glow on her blue uniform shorts at the stop on Colonial Drive in west Orange County. Out the door just after 5 a.m., she walks to the bus stop and waits alone before dawn on an October morning. “Is it a first-rate transportation service? No, it can’t be until it has a dedicated funding source,” said Seminole County Commissioner Lee Constantine, chairman of the Lynx board.
Officials acknowledge Lynx’s shortcomings, but say they can’t do more without more money.
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