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Valley Regional Transit asks Garden City for $33,000; presents service gains and long-term MOU idea
Summary
Valley Regional Transit presented ridership gains in Garden City, requested $33,000 for ongoing service assessment, described capacity pressures on paratransit/Beyond Access and proposed a multiyear memorandum of understanding to stabilize regional funding.
Valley Regional Transit CEO Elaine Clegg told the Garden City Council on July 14 that VRT is asking the city to include a $33,000 service assessment in its upcoming budget to maintain and expand transit service that has shown recent ridership gains in Garden City.
The request followed a 2024 systemwide service change that VRT said produced 3,120 new rides in Garden City (a 70.7% increase at certain points) and a 1.78% year-over-year increase in Garden City ridership on its fiscal-year measure. "We're here tonight to talk to you about our annual funding request," Clegg said. She described an idea VRT is pitching to partners: a longer-term memorandum of understanding to create a predictable baseline contribution from member jurisdictions.
Clegg said the $33,000 request could be paid from one or more budget categories and emphasized the per-ride cost compares favorably to similar transit services. She described several local service developments: new half-hourly service on Route 21, a new Route 20 that added service into…
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