[tabi] Re: Fw: City of Tallahassee News Release - StarMetro Completes Draft Bus Stop Analysis for Decentralization
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:47:33 -0400
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
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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
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"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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