The popular statewide Bustang bus service will resume service this weekend, with buses rolling across Colorado highways for the first time since the service was suspended due to COVID-19 at the end of March. Read more
It’s just ready for a serious makeover, and cities are using COVID-19 as the catalyst for some long-overdue change.
Think of it as the ultimate spring cleaning solution, with the goal of drawing riders back and capturing subsequent revenue. But there’s not some “one size fits all” answer, with the right approach for each city falling on a spectrum.
Check out three ways cities are tackling what’s next, from smart tech tweaks to completely reenvisioning the future of mobility.
Location: Microsoft Teams Virtual Meeting
- Intros & Updates (16 people in attendance)
- Bustang
- City of Lone Tree will become a part of their route
- Start date undetermined
- Working on app where you can buy Bustang and RTD tickets from the same app
- City of Lone Tree will become a part of their route
- Douglas County updates
- Faye is taking a new role in the county so she will not be heading the Douglas LCC going forward
- Rand and Valerie are going to take this position on for now
- County is on a soft hiring freeze right now
- Working on submitting grants to DRCOG
- Human Need Taskforce being created from Office of Emergency Services during this time
- COVID has had a high impact on transportation
- Medical trips are still happening
- Douglas County is trying to identify grant resources in order to take services TO people where they are.
- Many providers are doing reassurance calls to make sure people are ok
- Call center is primarily dealing with
- Aging and resources calls
- COVID questions calls
- They are looking to have someone on staff who primarily deals with transportation questions
- They have been working closely with other transportation organizations like DRMAC and DRCOG
- Starting to track trips by jurisdictions: both start and destination
- Finding that Lone Tree has a lot more destination than starting trips
- Most likely due to medical facilities there etc.
- Finding that Lone Tree has a lot more destination than starting trips
- Looking for creative grant sources and CARES ACT dollars for future funding
- Implementation Plan
- No one planned for COVID-19
- Not going to meet every goal set forth
- New goal – serve residents now and look into future anticipated needs
- Looking at what the revised Implementation Plan should look like into 2021
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- Faye is taking a new role in the county so she will not be heading the Douglas LCC going forward
- DRMAC app presentation
- It’s like the Getting There Guide in your pocket
- Available in Google Play and Apple stores
- Ally from DRMAC will be doing trainings on the new app
- Most likely all virtually for now
- Contact her at amercer@drmac-co.org if you’re interested in setting up a training
- Bustang
- Next Meeting – Spetember 24th 9:30-10:30am
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