StarMetro to hold Final Listening Sessions on nova2010 Public Input Sought on Route Decentralization Project During the month of November, StarMetro will hold two final Listening Sessions to garner customer input on its route decentralization project titled Innovation in Transit or nova2010 for short. Listening Sessions will take place on: - November 6 at City Hall in the Tallahassee Room, located at 300 South Adams Street, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. - November 10 at City Hall in the Tallahassee Room, located at 300 South Adams Street, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The nova2010 project aims to take the current downtown oriented route structure and break apart the structure to create a more grid-like system with routes running on main roads from north to south and east to west with many routes bypassing downtown's C.K. Steele Plaza. This new structure would create many transfer points scattered throughout the city. By traveling on major roads and eliminating route redundancies, a decentralized StarMetro route structure would offer customers: - Reductions in downtown transfers. - Reductions in travel time. - Reductions in carbon footprint. - Increases in on-time performance. - Increases in frequency (bus comes more often). - Increases in regional travel opportunities. "The ultimate goal of nova2010 is to create a transit system that better meets the needs of customers - direct, fast, forward," said Ron Garrison, executive director of StarMetro. StarMetro plans to launch the new, grid-like system in fall 2010. 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 www.facebook.com/nova2010project and Twitter at www.twitter.com/nova2010project. Sally Benjamin salbenjamin@xxxxxxxxxxx