Seniors Advisory Council's Comparison Study = Sheltered Bus Stops
Comparison Items Sarasota County Area Transit Collier Area Transit Lee County - LeeTran Manatee County Area Transit Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority Volusia County - Votran Info Only
What percentage of your riders are older Fixed route: 11% age 65+; 8% are age 65 – 75. 1% are age 75-79; and 2% are age 80+. 1. adults (65+, showing the demographics of 3.5% 10% 5% 22% (Increase in 2015 as 65+ ridership was 9% in ridership)? 2014).
Apply for Federal Transit Administration (FTA) formula grant funding and local infrastructure Funded through use of local, state, and Two primary sources: 1.) Block grants 5307 surtax funding to fund shelters and 2 How do you fund your bus shelters? federal funds. There is not one dedicated FTA Grants 2.) Partnership Program: Shelters costs are shared Section 5307 Grants improvements. Receive FL Dept. of source for this project. among private parties or municipalities and PSTA Transportation Discretionary Service Development grants for ADA bus stops pads.
4 sizes: 1.) 4' X 8' 2). 3' X 12' 3.) 4' X 12' 4.) 8' X 12'; aluminum (some have trash cans, some have bike racks, some have both, and Aluminum 9 foot long shelter with some have nothing except the shelter. 85% of What is the definition (style, size, The average size shelter is 4 ft. x 12 ft. (Most Typical bus shelter design is aluminum and bench and trash can. The roof width 5000 bus stops only have a sign. All shelters 11.6'w x 5'd: aluminum frame, Plexiglas walls, 3 include a trash can, a map case and bike racks). plexi-glass; includes solar powered lighting. is 4 feet and the side width is 2 have display boards that hold schedules but as walls, interior bench seating, wheel chair space end 3 material, etc.) of your typical sheltered Also install smaller 3 ft. x 9 ft. shelter where right Size of most shelters is 9' width and 3' feet. They do have two 22” x 22” map of 5/4/2016 shelters will go to "real time of bench, translucent roof to let light in. (If Votran bus stop? of way is constrained. depth cases in them. Bike racks are separate applications" (allows a person to be on a places shelter, only provide shelter). which are installed in-house. mobile device or on a desktop computer and locate the stop that they are leaving from and it will tell them how long until the next bus comes).
Approx. 12 months (design, permitting, How long does it take to construct/install 6 - 12 months (Construct - 4 hours, install 2 hours but 4 Approx. 18 months and constructions are done in groupings of 6- 12 months (2 hours to install) 2 to 3 days not including permitting time. depends on size. Largest can be double that). one of your shelters? sites).
How many total bus stops are in your Approx. 2500; system is under inventory 5 Approximately 2042 bus stops. 1710 962 5000 system? now.
No; approximately 80 by Votran. Shelters No we do not have a shelter at every Do you have shelters at every bus stop provided by municipalities and developments 6 No, as of 4/2016 there are 232 shelters installed. No, 201 are sheltered stop. 188 of are stops are currently 725 sheltered out of 5000 stops. are not included. (Info on other shelters will location? If not, how many are sheltered? sheltered. not be available until October)
Approximately 11% of stops are sheltered and What is the percentage of bus stops that includes advertising shelters installed and 3% Votran 1% by municipalities and 7 11.75% Approx. 20% 15% are sheltered? maintained under contract with LAMAR developers advertising.*
As of May 2016 Seniors Advisory Council's Comparison Study = Sheltered Bus Stops
Comparison Items Sarasota County Area Transit Collier Area Transit Lee County - LeeTran Manatee County Area Transit Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority Volusia County - Votran Info Only
Average cost is $32,000 per shelter $15,000 - 20,000 per shelter ($1265 Averages $14,732.50* *includes base shelter cost, What is the current cost of construction/install; estimated cost includes $6,000 - typical Votran shelter with concrete 8 $27,000 for base cost Installation charge for a complete pads, installation, add-ons (Solar lighting, Trash engineering/design, permitting, construction, and pad. constructing/installing a shelter? sheltered stop by a sub-contractor). receptacles, etc.) purchase and install of the shelter.
Battery as needed for replacement (average Have an in-house staff that maintains the lifespan is approx. 2-3 years); Plexi-glass - We maintain our shelters in-house. The agreement with the municipality or shelters and picks up trash. Our advertising average lifespan is approximately 5-7 years Average of $2,000 annually (Pressure washing, trash 9 What is the cost to maintain a shelter? One employees pay scale is an developer is that Votran will construct the contractor LAMAR advertising maintains and Shelter Structure - avoiding accidents collection, site cleaning) average of $12 an hour. shelter and they will assume maintenance. picks up trash at their shelters. lifespan is better than 12 years. Costs vary for maintenance.
Installed bus stop shelters since the 1980's. The Over the course of years, what is the LAMAR advertising contract has been in effect Gradually over 5 to 6 years with a goal New shelter contract states approx. 1 year to duration of time it has taken to since 1997 (9 yrs.). A dedicated capital program to install 50 shelters a year in the 10 Gradually over last 7 years purchase, receive, construct, and install the first Gradually over the course of 40 years. started after 2000, with the first batch of shelters future (each shelter takes 2 hours per construct/install all of your shelters phase of shelters (34 shelters). (gradual, phased or all at one time)? installed in 2002. See graph at bottom of shelter. 100 hours). document on history of shelters.**
Do you allow advertisement on your Yes, through LAMAR Advertising; receive the greater of $450 per shelter, per year, or 11% of Yes, certain shelters (in good marketable Allowed on buses and specific contracted Votran buses have bus wraps but no buses, sheltered or transit stops? If so, No advertising is allowed at stops. We total net of advertising receipts, paid monthly. locations) are bought with ad panels. advertising shelters that are limited based advertising on Votran placed shelters. Some 11 explain. do allow small ads inside the buses The amount historically has been closer to the Certain bus benches also have ad on ordinances throughout the 24 cities in municipalities have contract advertising at a cost. $450 per shelter, per year, which would equate to backings. Pinellas County. shelters (minimal). approx. $20,000 annually.
A variety of newer shelters manufactured by different fabricators (Daytech, Brasco, Tolar); all are similar styles with the LAMAR advertising All shelters are the same size. There are shelters matching the SCAT style. Similar ones 4 older styles. New 2015 style is the same with All are constructed of aluminum with a variations depending if the cities or a Are all shelters constructed the same? If installed by City of Sarasota and North Port. The 4 sizes: 1. 4' X 8' 2. 3' X 12' 3. 4' X 12' 4. 8' X particular color scheme with mesh developer gets involved. Shelters are not, what are the different sizes/types of typical shelter is forest green with a dome roof Yes, . 9' width and 3' depth (see Question 3 12'. Aluminum; Minimum bus 12 sides and back. They are 9 feet long aluminum framed, dark brown finish with clear and bench. A few of the older models are a for other information). shelter pad is about 10ft X 15ft. but can be as shelters that are installed at your bus and two feet wide on the sides. The Plexiglas panels. The roof is a translucent different style but are being replaced. Venice big as 10ft X 30ft at some locations. It all stops? roof is 10 feet long and 4 feet wide. beige Plexiglas to allow light in. 3-wall shelters are black. Shelters constructed and depends on site location, ROW, etc. construction. installed by other public entities including Sarasota Memorial Hospital or by private companies match the architectural style of their building.
As of May 2016 Seniors Advisory Council's Comparison Study = Sheltered Bus Stops
Comparison Items Sarasota County Area Transit Collier Area Transit Lee County - LeeTran Manatee County Area Transit Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority Volusia County - Votran Info Only What is the area covered in miles of your 13 bus routes measured in directional miles 152 miles 538 743 square miles 893 unduplicated miles 599 miles was reported in 2015 reported to National Transit Database?
800 ft. to 1200 ft. between stops; currently reviewing this spacing as part of the What is the average distance between bus Comprehensive Operations Analysis (COA) to be For longer routes - 1/4 mile spacing In north county, less urban areas, about 1/2 14 completed Summer 2016. Anticipate (1320ft.); urban settings with more 250 ft. mile (2640 ft.). In downtown areas, about 500 to 1,000 ft. stops? recommending increase in the spacing between pedestrian traffic we use a smaller distance 700 feet. stops to every quarter mile or more, based on the density of adjacent land uses.
Developers, the municipalities, neighborhoods, non-profits (SFC) and Recently launched the Shelter Match Have you partnered with any community scouts. Among successes are 3 shelter pads We have partnered with developers, Program. Custom shelters - PSTA will pay Municipalities - Orange City, DeBary, 15 organizations to construct/install sheltered constructed in 2014/2015 by the Pinecraft working with them to build transit amenities No for site development up to $7,300. Split cost of DeLand, Ormond Beach, and Volusia stops and if so, who and how? neighborhood and in 2015 a shelter pad that would service their development site. current standard shelters: simple 50%/50% County constructed and installed by the Englewood split of total cost. Adventure Scout Troop.
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) requires all transit agencies evaluate distribution of amenities including stations and stops (completed every 3 years by SCAT). Used 2015 shelter data for the most recent analysis submitted to FTA; documents quantitatively showed that those Joint decision between Votran management Who is the decision-maker on placement portions of the service area with higher than Planning Department selects the shelter and municipalities. Votran shelter 16 average minority populations are not furnished MCAT Logistics Manager Chris Cochran - own taxing authority of shelters within low-income or expensive sites. placement is driven by request for need, not with less or inferior service including the neighborhoods? social or economic factors of a neighborhood. distribution of shelters. The 2015 Title VI report submitted showed the minority and non-minority routes have a similar average number of shelters per route. Minority Bus Routes averaged 11.5 shelters per route and Non-Minority Routes averaged 11.3 shelters per route.
As of May 2016 Seniors Advisory Council's Comparison Study = Sheltered Bus Stops
Comparison Items Sarasota County Area Transit Collier Area Transit Lee County - LeeTran Manatee County Area Transit Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority Volusia County - Votran Info Only
Since shelters have been placed over the time span of 40 year history, the per year placement would be fractional. Votran Annually we review 30 - 35 sites for does not have a plan for placing shelters at shelters with funding permitting; program FY 2016: installed 30 shelters at shelter pads every stop. They are only placed as establishes a group of potential shelter sites constructed by SCAT, Sarasota County Road We will place 65 new shelters over the next requested. The local Transit Oriented What is your estimated number of new (averaging 30-35 sites per year). Design, 17 Projects, City of Sarasota and developers. 50 two years. From that point on, we will aim to Development Plans call for developers to permitting, and constructions are done in shelters per year? In FY 2017: estimates installing a minimum have roughly 20 new shelters each year. provided amenities adequate to their groupings of these 35 sites. A fiscal year's of 12. developments that fall on transit routes. worth of shelter projects is competed once Sometimes the developer builds their own all shelter sites are completed. structures or municipalities will partner with Votran to provide a shelter as an assist for the developer.
* LAMAR advertising shelters update and status – SCAT is currently working with Real Estate staff on the potential purchase of shelters from LAMAR advertising. LAMAR’s contract is in its 19th year and expires in May 2017. Concurrently, SCAT is preparing an advertising content policy, which will be presented to the Board in the near future.
** SCAT History of Sheltered Benches
As of May 2016