In assessing its transition to sustainable mobility, LTD employed an innovative partnership with the University of Oregon to study opportunities and challenges.
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Findings may help midsized communities consider how they might need to adjust their bus services in the face of climate forecasts.
The fare system is set to go into service as early as late summer 2019.
Jackson speaks about the success of LTD’s BRT system and the changing face of the public transit industry as it increasingly looks to a “complete trips” mobility model.
LTD is hoping to get the money in the form of Oregon Lottery-backed bonds, to use as matching funds for a federal grant it plans to apply for.
With an average of seven people using the service a day out, as well as the estimated $40-a-trip cost to run the buses, officials couldn’t justify continuing it beyond the end of the contract.
The investment focuses on increasing service on LTD’s most used routes including the EmX serving downtown Eugene, downtown Springfield and the Gateway area, Route 11 serving Springfield’s Thurston area, and Routes 66 and 67 serving North Eugene.
Sue Dreier began her transit career on the ground floor as a part-time bus operator for Lane Transit District (LTD) in 1990 in Eugene, Ore., as she went back to school to earn her BA in public administration while also raising her two daughters.
The electric buses will replace five diesel buses, which have been in service since 1999 and have logged more than 500,000 miles each. The diesel buses consume a combined 39,114 gallons of diesel fuel each year.