1. Prince George Transit : Fall 2017 Expansion
February 2017

2. Background Background 2,500 hours expansion funding
Transit Future Plan recommendations
Statutory holiday service
Service improvements on weekends
Public outreach
Survey and Talktober open houses
Analysis
Route performance and ridership
The Transit Future Plan sets a transit mode share target of four percent for all trips in 25 years. Modal share is a transportation term that describes the percentage of travelers using a particular method of transportation such as walking, cycling, transit or automobile.
Background

3. Public outreach Who rides this service? Which routes do they use?
25% UNBC students
4% seniors
Which routes do they use?
Rt 88/89 & 15
How often do they ride?
2 to 3 times a day
Public outreach

4. Public outreach (dis)Satisfaction with transit service
Dissatisfaction with shelter unavailability
(in)Convenience of transit service
Inconvenient travel times
Public outreach

5. Network challenges Challenges Route 1/11 schedule in consistency
Route 46/47 circuitous
Route duplication along Massey Dr.
Route 17/18 low usage routes
Route 88 routing
Route 16 weekend routing
New growth area
Challenges

6. Route performance Analysis
Route 15 highest boardings, 12 boardings per trip, carries close to 60 people per hour
Route 5 fourth highest boardings, no Sunday service
Route 18 lowest ridership route
Route 17, 46/47 low ridership routes
Annual boardings
Analysis

7. Recommendations Recommendations
Add service on remaining statutory holidays
Improve span of service on Sundays
Improve frequency of service on Saturday on FTN routes
Minor route changes to improve efficiency, provide schedule consistency and decrease travel time on some routes
The first steps should be to identify transit facility functional requirements and identify and evaluate potential facility site options.
Recommendations

8. Statutory Holidays Recommendations Fiscal Year 2016/2017
Labour
Day
Thanksgiving
Day
Remembrance
Day
Boxing
Day
Family
Day
Good
Friday
Victoria
Day
Canada
Day BC
Day
Labour
Day
Sept. 5th 2017
Partial Implementation of statutory holidays
Sept 5 - service expansion implementation, increased Sunday and statutory holiday span
Recommendations

9. Route span
Recommendations

10. Communication Materials
Next Steps
Council Report
Refining Schedules
Communication Materials
Spreading word
Implementation
February to June 2017
May to August 2017
August 2017
September 2017
Questions???
Next steps