CLEVELAND, Ohio — Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority on Tuesday made public its proposed bus system redesign, which would boost frequency on several popular routes, and would reduce service on other routes.
The proposed redesign would increase service to every 15 minutes on routes along Kinsman Road, and Detroit, Lorain, St. Clair and Superior avenues, among others.
Thirty-minute service also would be added on Madison and Clark avenues, and Mayfield, Ridge and Cedar roads, Director of Service Management Joel Freilich told trustees.
Freilich did not identify during Tuesday’s meeting which routes might have service reduced. He later refused to identify the routes for cleveland.com because RTA hasn’t made final decisions.
“At this time we don’t know precisely what’s on the list of streets that won’t have a bus, and we don’t know precisely the list of routes or street segments that will have less frequent service,” Freilich said.
Such decisions will be finalized over the next month, and made public in mid-September, Freilich said.
The redesign, revealed during an RTA trustee committee hearing, is a rough draft, as RTA expects to make changes via a community feedback process this fall. RTA hopes to implement the final changes in June 2021 following a spring public education campaign.
The redesign aims to:
•Provide more frequent, direct all-day service along several major routes
•Prioritize service that provides access to work, education and healthcare
•Reduce the need to transfer between buses during trips between Cleveland and the suburbs
To better link the city with the suburbs, RTA proposes:
•Extending the #22 (Lorain Avenue) route to the Westgate Transit Center
•Extending the #26 (Detroit Avenue) route to Westlake, and the CSU Line into North Olmsted
•Linking the Steelyard Commons and Clark Avenue route to Lakewood’s Madison Avenue
•Extending the #10 (E. 105th Street) to Collinwood and downtown Euclid
•Extending the #14 (Kinsman Road) to Chagrin-Lander and Tri-C East campus
•Linking Quincy Avenue and Cedar Road on one route
•Linking Payne and Hough avenues and Mayfield Road on one route
To achieve the changes, RTA expects to reduce service or frequency on some routes. That includes routes that are in close proximity to routes with more frequent service, Freilich told cleveland.com.
No municipality will lose service altogether, Freilich said.
The proposed changes are an attempt at reflecting rider priorities conveyed to RTA via a 2019 system redesign study.
Trustee Valarie McCall on Tuesday said she believed RTA did a good job in reflecting the public’s preference for more frequent bus service.
Board President Dennis Clough said he wanted to keep in mind the need to balance a high frequency schedule on popular routes with ensuring that RTA is “not cutting out the ability to move from one part of county to the other.”
Once RTA solicits feedback from the public and makes changes to the draft design, officials plan to present a final map to trustees in December, though changes to system design do not require board approval, Freilich told cleveland.com.
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