The solar-powered electronic ink (E Ink) signs, located at 18 bus stops in several Boston neighborhoods, provides stop-specific info.
In the course of researching my book Better Buses, Better Cities, I was proud to see agencies taking the challenge head on.
Under the order, the advertisements will be banned from bus shelters, newsstands, phone booths, and Wi-Fi LinkNYC kiosks.
Approximately 90 bus stops were identified for removal or consolidation based on the review.
The servicing of several types of bus stops, in particular their locations, presents unique challenges involving the safe boarding and alighting process of customers.
This newly designed system will deliver information to passengers in a clear and concise format accentuating the agency's extensive public transportation options.
The stop serves VIA’s VIVA culture route and is part of VIA’s ongoing Passenger Amenities Improvement Program, which includes the improvement of 1,000 existing bus stops throughout the VIA service area.
In keeping with VIA’s ongoing commitment to support local, small, and minority-owned businesses, nearly all of the contracts awarded for VIA’s Passenger Amenities Program went to locally-owned businesses and/or certified DBEs/SBEs.
She is an ambassador for VIA and San Antonio, where she moved twenty years ago from Washington, D.C. to become executive director of the Southtown Urban Main Street Project. She started working for VIA almost nine years ago, when she accepted the position in project management and urban design.
The raffish, worldwide movement known as tactical urbanism appears poised to take on a meatier role in improving transit in bus corridors. By providing low-cost, agile alternatives to lengthy street improvement processes, “tactical transit” has the ability to jumpstart virtuous cycles of increasing bus ridership by speeding up travel times, improving passenger experience, and enhancing overall perceptions of riding the bus.
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