StarMetro to hold Listening Sessions on Nova 2010
September 30
Public Input Sought on Route Decentralization Project - During the month of October, StarMetro will hold eight Listening Sessions to garner customer input on its route decentralization project titled Innovation in Transit, or Nova 2010 for short.
Listening Sessions will take place on:
- October 6 in the Tallahassee Room at City Hall, located at 300 South Adams Street, from noon to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 7 p.m.
- October 7 at the Leroy Collins Public Library, located at 200 West Park Avenue, from noon to 1 p.m.
- October 8 at the Atkins Building in the Koger Office Center, located at 1320 Executive Center Drive, from 7 to 8 p.m.
- October 14 at the Leroy Collins Public Library from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
- October 22 at the Northeast Branch Library, located at 5513 Thomasville Road, from 5:30 to 7 p.m.
- October 27 at the B.L. Perry Jr. Branch Library, located at 2817 South Adams Street, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 5:30 to 7 p.m.
The Nova 2010 project aims to take the current downtown oriented route structure and break it apart to create a more grid-like system, with routes running on main roads from north to south and east to west with many routes bypassing downtown's C.K. Steele Plaza. This new structure would create many transfer points scattered throughout the city (see proposed routes).
By traveling on major roads and eliminating route redundancies, a decentralized StarMetro route structure would offer customers:
- Reductions in downtown transfers.
- Reductions in travel time.
- Reductions in carbon footprint.
- Increases in on-time performance.
- Increases in frequency (bus comes more often).
- Increases in regional travel opportunities.
"The ultimate goal of nova2010 is to create a transit system that better meets the needs of customers - direct, fast, forward," said Ron Garrison, director of StarMetro.
StarMetro plans to launch the new, grid-like system in fall 2010.
For more information, please call StarMetro's main office at 850-891-5200 or visit Talgov.com/starmetro. For additional project updates, please call the nova2010 hotline at 850-891-5283 or via email. Citizens may also follow updates on Facebook at www.facebook.com/nova2010project and Twitter at www.twitter.com/nova2010project.
Contact
Brian Waterman, StarMetro Planning Administrator, 891-5564; or Lizzy Kelley, Communications Department, 891-8533
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