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<br />Attachment 2: Ridership, Service and Service Area Population (July 1988 projected <br />through June 2006) <br />As stated on the chart, LTD’s baseline expectation is that increases in ridership will keep <br />pace with the growth in the general population and with service increases. It is clear that <br />service cutbacks in 2001 – 2004 resulted in decreased ridership, but since then the <br />ridership has increased more rapidly than the build back of service hours. <br /> <br />Attachment 3: Employer Program Participants <br />This is a list of employers and schools participating in group pass programs. <br /> <br /> <br />Service <br /> <br />Service levels are affected by changes in LTD’s revenue. Since the District’s primary <br />source of funding, the payroll tax, is closely tied to the general economy of the area, <br />LTD’s service level directly reflects upturns and downturns in the local economy. <br /> <br />Following a high growth period in the 1990s, the transit service level was reduced a total <br />of nine percent between 2000 and 2004 in response to reduced revenues. The recently <br />improved local economy will allow LTD’s service to be increased by over two percent <br />this coming fall, and small annual service increases are projected in the District’s long- <br />range financial plan. <br /> <br />Service changes are considered as part of the Annual Route Review process that starts <br />in late fall and leads to a decision by the LTD Board in March. Approved service <br />changes are implemented the following September. <br /> <br />LTD typically receives many more requests for service than can be accommodated by <br />the budget. Decision on service changes are based primarily on ridership, with the goal <br />to maximize ridership within a given service level. Other factors, such as providing <br />access to the system by those who have limited transportation options, are also <br />considered. <br /> <br />Attachment 4: Passenger Counts per Route is a chart that provides a snapshot of the <br />service the week of May 21 – 27, including the number of boardings each day of that <br />week, and how those totals were distributed over the day and over the routes. <br /> <br /> <br />RideSource <br /> <br />Lane Transit District is required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) to provide <br />transit service for people who have a disability that prevents them from using the fixed- <br />route service. This service is a demand-responsive curb-to-curb service, which means <br />that riders must call to request a ride, and the service picks them up at the curb near <br />their trip origin and lets them off at the curb near their trip destination. By law, this <br />service must have the same hours of operation and coverage as the urban area fixed <br />route system. <br /> <br />Attachment 5: Lane Transit District Special Transportation Statistics summarizes the <br />increase in demand for RideSource service and resulting costs over the past ten years. <br /> <br /> <br />