Thank you, emily, and good evening. It is a great pleasure to introduce William Seale. I have known william for a very long time because he married my good friend and college classmate, lucinda smith. I married a brilliant historian, and so did she. [laughter] William Seale is a charming and witty texas gentleman whose interest in history and buildings has fueled a long career in both. He is a native of beaumont, texas, holds a ba from southwestern university, an ma and a ph. D. From duke. He left texas in 1969 and spent two years in columbia, south carolina, restoring the home of wade hampton. He then came to washington in 1972 to write a history of state capitols with Henry Russell hitchcock. He, lucinda and their two sons settled in lucindas native alexandria. At this point in his career, he focused on two things; Historic Restoration and writing. His twovolume history of the white house was published by the White House Historical society in 1986 with the second edition in 1996. He
Our service, but again focusing on our heaviest ridership routes. The Capital Investments is shown on this map here. It would be up to a 20 percent faster trip focusing on our highest priority routes. What these investments would a rou routes would improve safety and the quality of the experience for our customers, but it will also allow us to reinvest back into the service so when were able to save travel time that allows us to cost effectively increase frequency on the system. In approaching this implementation were very focused on the marriage on how the street is designed and how the service is designed and how the service is managed and thats the approach for all of our pilots like to look at our lanes, are we managing the certificate list proactively. We did a lot of training with our operators so they understood they were apart of a pilot and delivering a Premium Service to our customers but also so they can communicate the limited service. I wont go into the pilots because youv
Our neighborhoods, were providing 18 minutes of services. If were making tradeoffs for transit that were doing it on the routes that has the heaviest ridership and when were making decisions on how to make a community route, were not comparing it to the 28 gary, but comparing how its performing in terms of other routes and passenger effectiveness and cost effectiveness matrix. We also, in the transit effectiveness project are looking at stop consolidation. But its important to highlight were sticking with the key standard that most stops are within an 8th of a mile spacing and under the proposal, were recommending maintaining 97 percent of our 3500 stops where were looking at stop consolidation and working closely with neighborhoods and communities and making sure we hit other key land uses. This is the Rapid Network that has heaviest ridership. We want to make sure the service is direct and convenient as possible. Thats complimented by the grid network or the local network and these t
Were approaching a five year high and rider ship. Our january number s the bus side showed for the first time were out of the recession in terms of the impact on transit and the service is going to grow. Investment likes the five limited where we increase service by 30 percent have been critical to eliminating pass ups and attracting customers out of their car. The tep has three key sections and the first is the policy framework and how theyre structure and the second is the service increase itself and the third is the capital that i spoke about earlier. The Service Policy framework builds on our strengths today. Theyre residential areas within a quarter mile of service that maintain 18 hours of Service Across the city. And that we provide basic access so that even in our neighborhoods weeshgs providing even in our neighborhoods, were providing 18 minutes of services. If were making tradeoffs for transit that were doing it on the routes that has the heaviest ridership and when were mak
That most stops are within an 8th of a mile spacing and under the proposal, were recommending maintaining 97 percent of our 3500 stops where were looking at stop consolidation and working closely with neighborhoods and communities and making sure we hit other key land uses. This is the Rapid Network that has heaviest ridership. We want to make sure the service is direct and convenient as possible. Thats complimented by the grid network or the local network and these two networks combine help create a system where people can get to where theyre going without making more than one transfer. Some of these connect to regional hubs. The Service Increases overall, depending on how your dialogue around the budget is up to a ten percent increase in service. Theyre focused on redesigning routes and improving the efficiency of routes and expanding the limited routes so is people have a quicker choice on how they get around and focusing on routes where we have the most crowding. This map here and