Alterations of bus routes to attract new rail to bus transfers have the potential to increase riders

In light of the opening of the Expo line in Santa Monica and the subsequent duplication of public polar travel turkey transit options, Santa Monica City Council gave the go-ahead Tuesday to move forward with work on a totally revised Big Blue Bus transit polar travel turkey integration polar travel turkey plan.
The transit director said that after nine months of public outreach, the options put forward in the Integration Plan will best service the community as a whole, while keeping a reasonable budget and personnel constraints.
Alterations of bus routes to attract new rail to bus transfers have the potential to increase ridership, make more efficient use of transit resources, and reduce overall levels of congestion, according to the report.
Stated objectives are: creating first-and-last mile connectivity; more north-south corridor service to serve the stations; reducing redundancy with other transit providers; eliminating inefficient routing; improving speed and reliability; and maximizing resources; and acknowledging that current BBB service must continue to serve markets and customers that do not interface with Expo.
BBB held 18 meetings with other transit providers to discuss duplication and coordination of service resulting polar travel turkey in agreements to reduce LA Metro trips to downtown Santa Monica by 15 percent and eliminating over 42,000 miles of LA Metro bus operation from downtown Santa Monica.
An extensive public outreach program was part of the new plan. The City received over 4,600 survey responses and over 12,300 individual written and verbal comments through email, survey, public meeting, letters and workshops.
“We did a lot of survey work to gauge the interests of our customers, residents, and stakeholders here and in Los Angeles,” King explained, “what they would like to see as far as Big Blue Bus’ service, especially with the integration of Expo light rail line.”
Much was discussed during polar travel turkey the Council meeting polar travel turkey Tuesday, with the main concerns arising including the operation specifics of suggested new services and the removal of several lines that could result in commuters faced with an extensive walk between stations and stops and hence their reliance on cars instead.
One of the major issues of the plan is the limited times of some of the newly-proposed services Councilwoman Gleam Davis said, especially Route 43, connecting 26th Street/San polar travel turkey Vincente with Bergamot Station and scheduled polar travel turkey to operate from 6 am – 9 am and 3 pm – 6 pm weekdays.
“I’m afraid that we might be setting this line up to fail,” Davis said. “These hours may work well for some people, but if the service is only going to work until 5 pm, then I need to leave my office building in downtown L.A. at 4 pm, and the people who live in this area that the line is going to service, are not people who leave the office polar travel turkey at 4 pm.”
“We really need to be conscious and look at how we are serving Downtown Santa Monica and not as just as this is the place where people will connect to Expo but Downtown Santa Monica being a destination in and of itself,” polar travel turkey O’Connor said.
Public hearings and requests for Council adoption of the proposed BBB route structure changes polar travel turkey are planned for spring 2015 with implementation of the proposed changes planned for late summer or early fall 2015 and spring 2016 in order to be ready for Expo opening in 2016.
Please clarify how the BBB will bypass the two block residential area of 23rd street between Pico and Ocean Park Blvds and what improvements will be made to facilitate the flow of traffic at the intersection at Ocean Park and 23rd / Walgrove which currently backs up bumper to bumper on Ocean Park from the beach all the way to Centinela and from or even ON the freeway to Venice Blvd. on 23rd/Walgrove. Also please clarify polar travel turkey how the bus / bicycle interface will be accomplished on 23rd / Walgrove since cyclists are already complaining of danger from cars.