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MCTS previews cost-neutral "Move 2025" route plan, seeks rider and driver feedback
Summary
Milwaukee County Transit System staff told the county transportation committee that "Move 2025" would redraw routes to boost ridership, improve reliability and address equity, relying on public input and operating within existing budgets; the committee voted 5-0 to receive the informational report.
Jesus Ochoa, planning manager at the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS), told the Milwaukee County Committee on Transportation and Transit that MCTS is preparing a cost-neutral route-change proposal called Move 2025 and is seeking rider, driver and stakeholder feedback on draft options.
Ochoa said, “Our purpose is just to gather feedback from riders, from bus drivers, from stakeholders on some proposed route changes that we're looking to make.” He told supervisors the effort is intended to increase ridership, improve customer experience and “advance racial equity through transit.”
The nut graf: The plan would reconfigure routes and frequencies without asking Milwaukee County for additional operating funds; proposed service expansions would come only by finding efficiencies elsewhere in the system. MCTS staff said it will present a draft…
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