DC: With Ridership Falling, Metro will Spend $2.2M to Study Bus Business Model
Source The Washington Post
In recent years, cities from Houston to Baltimore to Richmond have conducted sweeping overhauls of their bus systems to speed up service and realign downtown-focused “hub-and-spoke” maps into networks better serving neighborhoods across their cities. Now, Metro will embark on a major bus study of its own, but it’s too soon to know if a ground-up redesign will come of it.
Metro has hired engineering firm Aecom to conduct an analysis of the business model of the Metrobus system — including the development of a long-term strategic road map for Metrobus, efforts to establish regional coordination on the system, and cost controls to ensure the Metrobus budget falls within the 3 percent subsidy growth caps imposed by new legislation establishing dedicated funding.
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