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... 33 CHAPTER FOUR SURVEY RESULTS: AGENCY ASSESSMENT OF ACTIONS TO PROVIDE BETTER ON-STREET BUS STOPS include: better relationships with municipalities; safer bus operation; ridership increases; ensuring ADA compliance; and investments in on-street amenities. One agency commented that ridership increases occurred only at high-ridership stops; improvements to low-ridership stops did not result in added ridership.
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... 34 culty in moving or discontinuing improved stops. Internal issues include clear responsibilities, consistency, and accurate information.
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... 35 • Addition of a unique five-digit identification number on every bus stop sign that can be used by means of phone, text, or smartphone to obtain real-time bus arrival time at the stop. Respondents were asked, "If you could change ONE aspect in the process of designing and locating bus stops, what would you change?
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... 36 • Work with appropriate municipalities and other groups early on in the development of bus stop guidelines in order to get their buy-in. Projects such as this are much more successful and efficient when agencies work together toward a common goal.
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... 37 reviews, and we have been approached proactively by the cities on several occasions as a result. • Outreach to adjacent landowners and customers is intense in the areas that are changing.
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... 38 municipalities and developers to provide bus stop improvements as part of their ongoing work, pursuit of funding opportunities that benefit all parties, real-time information at bus stops, dedicated funding and staff for a bus stop program, and means to involve riders and city staff in prioritizing stop improvements. • Streamlined and simplified approval processes, legal authority to establish bus stops where needed, and better coordination with local governments were most frequently mentioned in response to the question: "If you could change ONE aspect in the process of designing and locating bus stops, what would you change?

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