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Valley Transit consultants outline plan to restore service, but staffing and municipal funding limit timing
Summary
SRF Consulting presented a draft Transportation Development Plan recommending near-term route tweaks and medium-term moves to 30-minute service on four trunk routes, but officials warned implementation depends on hiring about a dozen drivers and buy-in from nine municipalities.
SRF Consulting presented a draft Transportation Development Plan (TDP) to the Valley Transit Commission on the transportation agency's near-, medium- and long-term service recommendations, emphasizing phased improvements that depend on driver hiring and partner-community funding.
'2, we'll give an overview of the TDP process' and the recommendations,' SRF transit planner Joe Capper said, introducing the consultant team and the agenda packet containing the full draft report. Project manager Matt Stegeman said the plan builds on previous studies and steering-committee engagement across the Fox Cities.
The plan separates recommendations into near-term (1'2 years), medium-term (3'5 years) and long-term categories. Near-term changes intended to be achievable without additional operating resources include small alignment edits: a tweak to Route 2 to accommodate Badger Avenue reconstruction, a routing…
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