Item A: Joint Meeting with Lane Transit District Board of Directors

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