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4. Medium Term Recommendations
These recommendations focus on further building out the bike, pedestrian, and transit network to establish a
robust multimodal framework that can be further enhanced in future phases by expanding headways and spans.
Most of the recommendations require a larger amount of expenditure, especially in capital and infrastructure
spending and inter-jurisdictional negotiation. These projects should be rolled out between five and ten years.
Express Bus Network
Once a robust local circulation system has been
established for the Cool Springs area allowing people
to move about the area without the use a car, the
utility of a more robust express bus system becomes
more apparent. Without such a network, express
buses would be forced to serve too many locations,
thus taking away the attraction of “express” service
to choice riders. The idea of the express bus network
is that all of the express buses will start and end at
a central Cool Springs location, where riders can
continue their journey by transferring to a local
bus, riding a bike picked up at a bikeshare station,
or walking. The initial express route destinations
are locations identified by LODES data as having the
highest concentrations of Cool Springs workers.
RTAs “Relax-n-Ride” Vehicle
Establishing these routes would require Franklin
Transit to enter into funding agreements with
surrounding counties, communities, and transit
systems (both public and private). Funding will
be explored in Section 8.0. The service spans and
headways along with the cost in additional hours
and vehicles will be shown on a chart at the end of
each subsection. All express routes should have
a unified brand, and stops should following the
branding theme, with well-appointed shelters of
identical design that include a transit map, schedule,
benches, a bike rack, and trash receptacles. Part
of this branding concept would be to give the stops
“station names,” as if the routes were similar to a
capacity fixed-guideway transit line. This would also
give the stops an additional sense of “place,” absent
from traditional local bus stops. The service spans
and headways along with the cost in additional hours
and vehicles will be shown on a chart at the end of
this subsection.
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