In the first phase of the project, we developed a Choices Report to analyze the existing network and discuss key questions that determine how the network should be designed. So, in finalizing the Better Bus Network, we worked with county staff and Transit Alliance to develop a Resilience Plan, to guide future decisions about how to ramp service up or down in the face of an unknown future.īut first, let’s talk about how we got here. Nobody knows how long the pandemic will go on, or what affect it will have on tax revenues that the agency relies on. ![]() It needed a plan that could adapt to a range of unpredictable futures. So our work paused for about four months.Īs the pandemic wore on, it became apparent that the agency needed more than a single transit network ready to implement. As the final public engagement phase was coming to an end, the pandemic reached the United States, and like many other agencies, Miami-Dade Transit went into crisis management mode. ![]() It’s great to see political leaders at the County, led by Mayor Cava, willing to invest in more service to achieve better outcomes.įor the past 18 months, we have been redesigning the bus network for Miami-Dade County, Florida with the local advocacy group Transit Alliance. These changes are possible because the revised network provides more service than what we originally planned because the County is now proposing to invest in 7% more bus service than the pre-pandemic network!Īs we’ve said before, the Better Bus Network as drawn last year wasn’t what Miami-Dade needed, it was what Miami-Dade could afford. The revisions to the Better Bus Network since April are relatively modest and include adding back some coverage routes in a few places, some extensions and improvements to service on the beach and a few other corridors. ![]() Look close for a vertical grey bar and you’ll find you can slide it left and right. It’s from a tool developed by Kittelson Associates that lets you move a slider back and forth between the two maps, so that you can see how different they are in the same place. (This is not our mapping style, by the way. Colors mean all-day frequency! Purple = 10 minutes or better.
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