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METRO Public Meetings on Five Year Plan

Date: Monday July 27th, 2009
Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: METRO RTA Intermodal Transit Station

www.akronmetro.org

 Five Year Plan  

METRO Regional Transit Authority, the public transportation provider for Summit County, will hold meetings presenting the final service recommendations for the next five years. The meetings will be held

Monday, July 27 - 6:30 pm, Transit Center, 631 S. Broadway, Akron

Tuesday , July 28 - 10:00 am, Transit Center, 631 S. Broadway, Akron

Tuesday, July 28 - 2:00 pm, Twinsburg City Hall, 10075 Ravenna Rd, Twinsburg

Tuesday, July 28 - 6:30 pm, Cuyahoga Falls Library, 2015 Third St, Cuyahoga Falls

Wednesday, July 29 - 10:00 am, Barberton Library, 602 W. Park Ave, Barberton

Wednesday, July 29 - 6:30 pm, Stow City Hall, 3760 Darrow Rd, Stow

The goal of the Transit Development Plan, is to examine METRO services that have been cut or reduced over the past decade; to look at current demographics and land use patterns to determine where new service and what type of service should be put in place; to identify efficiencies of the METRO SCAT service; and to examine possibilities for a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) in the East and West Market Street corridors. This is the third round of meetings in the TDP process which began in November 2008. Nearly 50 individual interviews, 600 passenger surveys, 500 mailed resident surveys, and 60 business contacts were made. The final plan will be presented to METRO’s board for consideration in August.

METRO RTA is the public transportation provider for Summit County providing fixed route and paratransit service. In 2008, METRO transported more than 5.8 million passengers.