Fixes that will cost nothing and will boost ridership:
- Exiting 19th & Pacific, it should stay on 19th and make a stop at the Convention Center
- OFF PEAK serve Town Center (and during peak hours, perhaps alternate trips serving Silverleaf vs. sering Town Center)*
- Downtown Norfolk (including Cedar Grove)
* the grant stipulates that the 960 MUST stop at a park & ride
Given the grant stipulation, every trip needs to stop at Silverleaf. However, you could do both Town Center and Silverleaf.
ReplyDeleteServe both on the same trip? Even better :)
ReplyDeleteEven without worrying about the extra distance, the problem for me is that it basically makes the Silverleaf area south of 264 unserved, except via connection from the 36. There is no pedestrian-friendly way that I'm aware of to cross beneath 264 at Independence (and I'd want safety equipment and a consultation with an insurance agent before I contemplated using a bicycle there, especially on the northbound side of Independence).
ReplyDeleteGoogle Maps tells me I currently have a 1.2 mile walk to Silverleaf. Town Center would be another mile and a half, if there was a way to use Independence on foot.
Re: grant stipulation. Given the speculation about buying the former Circuit City property, I wonder whether a park and ride there would meet the requirements (possibly supplemented with another stop inside Town Center), because I sense that the road between 264 and Silverleaf can be a bit of a bottleneck.
ReplyDeleteThe 960 would be eliminated when The Tide is extended to the Oceanfront as The Tide would run far more often and well into the evening (around midnight), but that's a few years away.
ReplyDeleteThe changes for the 960 now are things that can happen now
As for Circuit City becoming a transit center, not until The Tide is extended (can't wait!)
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