Oct 4
2012
Theater District station removal concerns transit group
One of Mayor Byron Brown’s top goals is to return vehicular traffic to downtown’s Main Street, but his plan for the newest phase that will remove the Theater District Station is drawing flak from the Citizens for Regional Transit. The Cars Sharing Main Street program violates its own mission of increasing transit ridership by eliminating the station, said Citizens for Regional Transit President Gladys Gifford. The average weekday ridership of the station is about 2,100. “How are you increasing transit ridership when you remove a station?” Gifford said this week. Gifford said the elimination of a station on the light rail line “constitutes[...]
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