Proposed System Map for Service on June 24, 2007 102 March 9, 2007 This proposal assumes that a flat fare (2 hour unlimited ticket) be implemented, creating the opportunity to allow transfers without penalizing the rider. This will allow areas such as Elizabeth, Michael Sypolt Trafford, Cranberry, etc. to continue to have daily service including holidays without expending many 5700 Centre Avenue, Apartment #913 vehicle hours and to allow additional frequencies on the major trunk lines. All efforts were made 90x Pittsburgh, PA 15206 while creating these schedules to minimize transfer time at transfer stations and even considered the 901 Phone: 412-512-2608 fact that BCTA buses arrive and leave Ambridge at five minutes to the hour when proposing the route Email: [email protected] schedules. As for the T, this proposal assumes on board fare checks to facilitate the use of two car 105 trains for the duration of the entire weekday and even weekends as ridership demands. Scheduling Department Third Floor For a limited number of routes, interlining was utilized to reduce deadhead or relief time for routes Heinz 57 Center where either terminus would not be conveniently located near a garage. In most cases, the route 90x 103 345 Sixth Avenue whose terminus is “furthest” from the garage would act as the “downtown” or “inbound” direction for Pittsburgh, PA 15222-2527 the route block. 153 Dear Mr. Mergner: This proposal suggests a new numbering system, which will be explained on the attached system map. After the initial shock of change, I believe that this new numbering system might be more th Ambridge Park-n-Ride I am writing a follow up to the submission that I sent in on February 9 . Firstly, I would like to thank 102 helpful to the rider since it will introduce meaning to letters and also the number structure. I also 20x 153 105 you and the Scheduling Department for taking the time to look at the proposal that I submitted and have a conversion table that shows the most likely Port Authority style number for each of the routes Beaver County Transit Authority hope that it could be an alternative way to reconfigure service in response to cost effectiveness, as proposed in case the transition to new numbering system cannot be achieved in the length of a 20x well as improving the transit system as a whole, instead of merely cutting service. 901 Scheduling Pick. 153 90x 103 In addition to the map that I created and you have already seen, I developed schedules for each the As well, a slight naming convention change was used to designate the corridor that the route served 10x routes suggested on the service map and allocated rough block runs for each of the routes. These in addition to its terminus for the local routes that provide service to Downtown. Feeder routes are 152 attached schedules provide two uses. The front side of the schedule shows the times as the rider often named by their two termini in addition to major intermediate points along the route. would see them with the exception of the on road off road in addition to a block route designation 102 UPMC Passavant Hospital 11 (W-### for weekday and WE-### for weekend). The reverse of the schedule shows the exact 102 152 While I still think of this proposal as “unfinished” on my part, I do believe that it as submitted would same times sorted in order of each block route to show the movement of the vehicle. In some routes, be a better alternative to abandoning large areas of the county on weekends as the Port Authority 152 102 152 taxi and street reliefs are relied upon for operational efficiency. has proposed. Areas such as Ambridge, Cranberry, Elizabeth, and Trafford will continue to have 103 10x 901 Central City Plaza - New Kensington service on all seven days in my proposal, even though a transfer would be required if riders in those 11x 20x 90x 152 102 90 708 In some instances, I edited the system map in response to running times and a desire to improve areas need to go Downtown. By coordinating the timings of these feeders at the transfer stations as 11 153 connectivity (for example, the route 53 on the map previously submitted terminates at Prospect Park well as the timings the Downtown-bound routes that they feed, transferring would be less painful for 103 where this submission shows the route extending to Century III to accommodate transfers as well as riders and will be economically feasible for both riders and Port Authority when using the flat-fare Sewickley Valley Hospital extend the running time to allow for hourly service with three buses running the route). proposal. 26 153 264 282 102 105 10x 11 This proposal, as revised and calculated, would provide a savings of a bit more than 16% in vehicle If you would like to schedule a meeting with me so that I can demonstrate to you the thought 11x hours while serving the county with a good spread over the area as well as good span of service on process that I used to develop this proposal, feel free to contact me either by email or phone. Also, if each of the routes. In most cases, the 22 major corridors that I identified had a substantial increase you plan on writing me, notice the updated address at the beginning of this letter. 90x 90x 26 Ross Park Mall in service as well as more regular frequencies as a result of allowing trunk lines to be staggered in 901 10 11 11x 102 103 105 264 152 10 departure times. The 21 “standard” routes that go Downtown generally run hourly all day everyday Sincerely, 282 10x 90 708 901 90 90x 708 68x except for rush hours where they run every half hour (some routes do to exactly fit this pattern, see 11 105 683 90 Harmar Garage (Alpha Dr. & Freeport Rd.) 11x 78x attached schedules). Fourteen express routes are retained and some are a result of consolidation of 22 78x 90 683 708 901 several expresses. All run only on weekdays with the exception of the 28x, which will be an express West View Shopping Center 105 708 15 15x 25 152 153 route to the Airport running seven days a week and every half hour all day. Thirty-six feeder routes Michael Sypolt 282 153 153 78x that generally run hourly every day and well into the evening provide most of the savings by 20x 22 683 26 153 264 683 708 reducing the redundancy of low ridership routes by utilizing strategic locations to provide a transfer to a route that goes Downtown. 264 78x Avalon Loop 25 708 20 20x 22 15 22 15x Pittsburgh International Airport 153 20x To reduce confusion and to maximize service on major corridors, the vast majority of the routes have 22 28 28x a single pattern and those that do have multiple patterns are merely extensions of the routes instead 683 105 of entirely different routings (usually in conjunction with an on road/off road trip). 282 26 90x 20 10 20x 15x 10x 105 22 90 12 15x 11 90 15 75 90 105 722 75 722 20x 708 68x 28 75 East Busway East Liberty Station 78x 11x 60x 66x 68x 78x 80x 90x 28x 721 7 8 25 20 264 10 12 90 721 722 90x Penn Mall Transit Loop The route numbering system of this proposal simplifies the current system and also helps the rider learn the routes better. Based on the current convention of starting at the 728 70 72 80 80x 85 86 90x Allegheny River and going counterclockwise, this system continues on that method of numbering. 561 721 722 728 729 90 75 22 87 26 11x Routes that are a major fixed guideway (busway or rail) are designated with single digit numbers [e.g. 3 for West Busway]. The exception is that while the South Busway is a 10x 71 729 87 87 80x fixed guideway facility, the majority of the route that serves it is not on the busway, so it is designated as a “major corridor” route instead (route number 45). Mall at Robinson 15x 90 728 721 15 90x 282 283 322 22 11x 729 28 722 20 85 90x 80x 87 527 80 Local routes that enter Downtown are designated with two digit numbers without letters. Two digit numbers that are divisible by five (ending in 5 or 0) are considered major 12 11 86 86 283 28x 22 87 25 60x 66x 708 corridor routes. Other two digit numbers reflect standard service into Downtown. Any two digit number followed by an “x” is considered an express route that supplements 20 8 68x 283 30 527 561 728 282 283 10 78x 86 80 80 683 25 527 527 80x 70 70 the of the two digit route “local” route. In limited cases, there is no local route paired up with an express route. 322 22 90x 28 80 71 708 80x 11 7 683 282 28 28 12 75 85 8 283 28x 60x 78x 3 527 561 66x 70 Triple digit routes are feeder routes into a transit center or Mall. The first two digits of the route number corresponds with the route that it feeds (generally the terminus of a 3 26 20x 81 7 72 322 22 68x 80x 80 28x 80 78x 708 687 route). The last digit of the route approximates its direction of departure from the transit center that it feeds using 1 for north of east working counterclockwise to 9 for east of 62x 70 71 66 283 22 728 68 30 728 85 north.