Committee pushes multimodal project toward a shuttle-loop pilot rather than expensive microtransit study
Members urged sharpening the CIP language for the multimodal project to prioritize public-transit alternatives and a task force to consider a shuttle-loop pilot; they recommended separating the initiative from the parking-project funding stream and forming a working group with the bike-and-pedestrian committee.
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The committee reviewed an existing CIP item labeled variously as microtransit or multimodal study and recommended refocusing it on public-transit alternatives and a task force to assess a shuttle-loop pilot. Members argued a shuttle overlay of existing COAST routes could be a lower-cost, quicker pilot compared with a full microtransit vendor deployment that previous estimates suggested could exceed $1 million.
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