AATA's 5-year countywide transit program forum on Wednesday moved to Dexter Library
The Ann Arbor Transportation Authority’s planned public forum tonight regarding the proposed 5-year public transit improvement program has been moved to the Dexter Library.
Courtesy of AATA
The forum was originally scheduled to be held at the Scio Township Hall, but will now be from 7-9 p.m. at 3255 Alpine St. in Dexter.
AATA representatives said the forums provide the community the opportunity to give feedback on the proposed countywide public transportation improvements.
The proposed plan would require $38.3 million in extra capital investments over five years and add $13.3 million to yearly operating costs when all elements are implemented.
The plan was prepared for the AATA by international consultant Steer Davies Gleave in association with Ann Arbor-based Carlisle Wortman Associates.
Officials have said the program takes all of the research and feedback the AATA received over the last two years while creating a 30-year transit master plan.
The program would enhance existing Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti services and increase access to public transit in underserved areas of the county.
If implemented, some changes residents in the county would see include door-to-door service for seniors and people with disabilities, express routes, new park-and-ride lots, increased service frequency and improved weekend service.
The last public forum meeting will be Thursday from 7- 9 p.m. at the Pittsfield Senior Center located at 701 W. Ellsworth Road.
Comments
CynicA2
Fri, May 18, 2012 : 7:14 p.m.
Predicting ANYTHING having to do with economic and demographic trends 5 years from now is difficult enough, but the sheer hubris and lunacy required to predict 30 years out is just breathtaking. Only clueless bureaucrats with no real world, private sector experience would even attempt to conceive of such a thing. Hold on to your wallets, folks - the folks at AATA have been hanging around the Hieftje too much - now they have "visions", just like he does - an endless flow of taxpayer dollars to piss away in perpetuity.
Jeffersonian Liberal
Thu, May 17, 2012 : 1:01 p.m.
Well stated st.julian. The bungling politicians and overpaid bureaucratizes will offer a token bus to the western edge of the county where it isn't needed so that they can justify stealing more revenue from us to prop up their failed public transportation. Keep throwing money down the rat hole, just not mine.
Veracity
Thu, May 17, 2012 : 12:45 p.m.
The formation of the Southeast Regional Transit Authority (SERTA) in progress in Lansing at this time will gut the 5 year AATA public transit improvement program. The public transit improvement program is based heavily on hope and expectation since demographic and economic changes are impossible to predict accurately year-to-year let alone over a five year period of time. Much money will be misspent and wasted as the AATA's projections for future usage patterns prove to be inaccurate. This view is predicated, of course, on what SERTA allows the AATA to accomplish with money that is not siphoned away.
kenUM
Thu, May 17, 2012 : 4:05 p.m.
veracity, Interesting comment; I have heard several concepts concerning SERTA and how it will affect or effect if you will AATA. One perstitant concept that I keep hearin is that AATA will cease to exist as it is now, and will just become the Washtenaw operating division.
st.julian
Thu, May 17, 2012 : 12:26 a.m.
Another misleading opporunity to let Ann Arbor politics control our lives. The western suburbs will have one or two votes on an 8 or nine meber board, Ann Arbor will have7 or 8. Which direction do you think the money and service will flow?