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Bryte transit reports ridership gains, Lewis Street hub upgrade and paratransit expansion
Summary
Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission staff updated Staunton council on Bryte regional transit services, reporting route-level ridership, a $160,000 Lewis Street hub rehabilitation, real-time GPS deployment and plans to expand weekday paratransit hours with a third vehicle.
Representatives from the Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission (CSPDC) told Staunton City Council on Jan. 23 that the region’s Bryte transit system has added service improvements and infrastructure upgrades intended to increase reliability and ridership.
“Bryte is a small urban and rural system that serves two cities with connections in between,” said Devon Thompson, transit program manager at the CSPDC. Thompson and Danielle Gannon, transit planner at the CSPDC, described fixed routes that include the West/North Loops, a Downtown Trolley (including a Saturday Night Trolley), a Route 250 connector, a Waynesboro circulator, a Blue Ridge Community College shuttle and the Stewart’s Draft Link, plus the Afton Express commuter route to Charlottesville.
Gannon said route-level ridership is concentrated…
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