[tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization

  • From: "Darla J. Rogers" <djrogers0628@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:20:03 -0400

Thanks, Lynn; sure hope we won't be forced to walk to Thomasville Road from 
here, as we might become roadkill before we get there.

Darla & Precious Roxy

Darla J. Rogers

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Home phone #:  850-329-7437
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere--Martin Luther King, Jr. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lynn Evans 
  To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 3:47 PM
  Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro 
Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization


  Hello Darla: 

   

  Now if the city of Tallahassee had contracted with the Lighthouse of the Big 
Bend to make the maps accessible this would be a resounding YES. 

   

  However I don't think so.

   

  Below is a link to the route descriptions that have been on the Internet for 
a wile. 

   

  http://www.talgov.com/starmetro/nova2010_routes.cfm#1

     

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Darla J. Rogers 
    To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
    Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:52 PM
    Subject: [tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro 
Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization


    Dear Lynn,

    Are these maps written in such a way as to be accessible to t totally blind 
person since I have a meeting to attend Thursday?

    Darla & Precious Roxy

    Darla J. Rogers

    djrogers0628@xxxxxxxxxxx
    Skype Username:  wildflower0628
    Home phone #:  850-329-7437
    "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere--Martin Luther King, 
Jr. 
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Lynn Evans 
      To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
      Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 1:13 PM
      Subject: [tabi] Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro 
Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization


      FYI
      Subject: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro Completes Draft Bus 
Stop Analysis for Decentralization


              
            StarMetro Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization
            Now Open for Public Input on the Proposed Nova2010 Bus Stop 
Locations 

            After a thorough bus stop analysis with a consultant and 
citizen/bus operator group, which took place over the summer, StarMetro has 
released the preliminary bus stop locations for Nova2010, the route 
decentralization project approved by the City Commission last spring. 

            In order to gain feedback on the proposed bus stop locations, 
StarMetro staff will hold a public meeting on Thursday, August 12, from 7 to 10 
a.m. in C.K. Steele Plaza. Members of the public who cannot attend this meeting 
on August 12 may view the bus stop location maps online and email feedback to 
nova2010project@xxxxxxxxxx or starmetro@xxxxxxxxxx and/or call StarMetro's main 
office at 850-891-5200.

            Currently, StarMetro utilizes 1,052 bus stops spread out across the 
City of Tallahassee. Most of these bus stops are fairly close to one another, 
less than a quarter of a mile. 

            "Of the 286 eliminated bus stops, most would be eliminated under 
the Nova2010 system due to proximity," said Ron Garrison, Executive Director of 
StarMetro. "Many of our bus stops are simply too close to one another."

            According to the preliminary bus stop analysis, the Nova2010 
decentralized system would utilize 766 bus stops. Of these 766 bus stops, 478 
currently exist in today's system, and 288 are brand-new bus stops. These new 
bus stops would be placed along corridors that are not served today and that 
would be served in the Nova2010 system - corridors, such as North Monroe 
Street, Magnolia Drive, Capital Circle NE/SE and portions of Orange Avenue and 
Blair Stone Road. Most of the Nova2010 bus stops would be placed within 3/10 of 
a mile from one another and at major intersections and trip generators.

            "This draft bus stop analysis took quite a while to complete, but 
with the help of the consultant and the citizen/bus operator group and with 
support from the Transit Advisory Committee, we are ready to release this 
information," said Ron Garrison, executive director of StarMetro. "We hope to 
get good feedback and suggestions from the public so that we can move forward 
with implementing Nova2010."

            StarMetro's Nova2010 route decentralization project aims to take 
the current downtown oriented route structure and break apart each route to 
create a more grid-like route structure with routes running from north to south 
and east to west, many bypassing downtown's C.K. Steele Plaza. 

            For more information, please call StarMetro's main office at 
850-891-5200 or visit Talgov.com/starmetro. For additional project updates, 
please call the Nova2010 hotline at 850-891-5283 or email 
nova2010project@xxxxxxxxxxx Citizens may also follow updates on Facebook at 
Facebook.com/starmetrotransit and Twitter at @starmetro_ .

            CONTACT
            Brian Waterman, StarMetro Planning Administrator, 891-5564; or 
Heather Teter, StarMetro Marketing Specialist, 891-5206
           
              
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