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<br />October 15, 2018, Work Session – Item 2 <br />EUGENE CITY COUNCIL <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br /> <br /> Work Session: Transit Tomorrow Meeting Date: October 15, 2018 Agenda Item Number: 2 Department: Public Works Staff Contact: Rob Inerfeld <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5343 <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT Through a process called Transit Tomorrow, Lane Transit District is taking a comprehensive look at its services and especially its network of bus routes. The result of this effort will be a change to LTD’s bus routes and potentially also how it subsidizes passes for youth and low-income people. LTD intends to repeat this effort every three years moving forward. LTD staff will provide an overview of the process including what has been learned so far and what to expect in the future. <br />BACKGROUND In order for LTD to better serve the communities in its service area, the LTD board decided to embark on a process called Transit Tomorrow. This process will help the board determine how to allocate an approximately eight percent increase in its budget that is provided by the new payroll tax on employees that was created by the state legislature’s passage of HB 2017. The LTD board will need to decide how it wants to allocate the new revenue between new bus service and subsidized transit passes for low-income residents and youth. LTD hired the consulting firm Jarrett Walker and Associates to lead the Transit Tomorrow effort. Jarrett Walker has extensive international experience with helping transit agencies optimize their bus service to meet community needs and make decisions on the policies that affect how the service is provided. With participation from regional staff including City of Eugene and LTD staff, Jarrett Walker and Associates has developed four scenarios that reflect an emphasis on ridership or coverage and how much of the new LTD revenue will be put towards increasing bus service or fare reduction programs. These scenarios are being refined and analyzed and will be shared with the community in early 2019. A graphic illustrating the tradeoffs among the four scenarios is provided as an attachment. To date, there has been extensive community engagement as well as technical analysis. The results of the technical analysis are provided in the Existing Conditions and Choices Report of which an executive summary is provided as an attachment. The full report can be found at www.ltd.org/transit-tomorrow.