Agenda Packet 7-15-19 Work Session

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MovingAhead Spring 2019 Outreach Summary 87 there isn't a place we can park our cars when we get there (when it isn't close enough to walk to the stops), then we won't be able to use it.  River Road transit is so frustrating! It takes an hour to get downtown! Thanks for working on this!  Build out the EmX system !  I use the existing EmX on 11th Avenue. Will use other corridors if improvements are made.  Extending EMX is the most sound route, in general. The more we invest now in sensible mass transit, the more livable out city will be.  LTD should sell tickets that are good for 90 minutes, so that people don't have to pay a second fare for a transfer. LTD should switch to a grid model and abandon its foolish hub model.  Run a bus on Beltline and connect the outer spokes of the hub so that everyone doesn't have to go downtown in order to get from one corridor to another. Inefficient bus travel reduces ridership. People need an easier way to get from one corridor to another.  Hoping to see a healthy mix of immediate improvements and planning for longer-term easing into more EmX lines. I know it's a bit slower overall, but doing stuff like making a WinCo run on the weekend can be challenging right now (and once I find a job, who knows how well I can do that during a weekday) because bus timing is just hard to make match my own schedule neatly.  By the way, since there seems to be a shift to using TV screens at EmX stops for upcoming times instead of those old-school monochromatic dot arrays, and the text needed to convey the destination/time coming up is horizontally a lot less than the screens, it would be nice if those stops started doing half/half with upcoming times and a map showing nearby buses. LTD's site keeps pestering me about location and trying to force me to load Google Maps to show bus locations, which suggests the data already exists, so it would be handy to have that load on an LTD-controlled screen at the stops. This not only acts as a convenience to quickly observe this information relatively built-in to the stop, it also relieves users of the burden of LTD having picked Google and the way that Google does its tracking and some of the grave implications of using a Google service to look at explicit where am I now and where am I going type data.  Oh, one last thing under anything else, it would be nice if bus stops could be enhanced some way to detect/deter the folks who keep smoking at them. Apparently some individuals have not noticed in the last couple decades that this is very explicitly not allowed (alas, not just e- smoking, legacy smoking seems to still be happening regularly too), so I don't know what exactly to do about it, but it is getting tiresome to get to an EmX platform just to find someone blatantly standing right in the middle of it with a cigarette lit up and even the non-EmX platforms where drivers have plenty of opportunity I can unfortunately only recall a couple instances out of all the bus riding I do where smokers are actively told to stop it. Given nobody under 30 at this point legitimately missed all the messaging about why not to start smoking, it is hard to sympathize with someone who started anyway wanting to stay dry in the process to the expense of everyone else trying to stay dry and everyone who needs a seat not being able to get near one without having to suffer consequences of being right next to an active smoker. If there's some clever way to, like, detect smoking/e-smoking/whatever and do, like, an alarm to deter the smoker or give the next driver a heads-up to call the smoker out or something, that would be a nice addition to any new/improved stops along these routes (and to stops along all the routes in general). July 15, 2019, Joint Work Session – Item1