Norfolk aims to take on a bus route redesign. Will other cities in Virginia follow suit?
A Hampton Roads Transit bus in Norfolk by Vlad Gavrilovic/ Norfolk Transit Department used with permission. A version of this article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury. After Virginia’s capital city overhauled its bus routes in 2018, the resulting 17% annual growth in ridership made the city’s sole public transportation provider —the Greater Richmond Transit Company — a rare example of success at a time when systems across the country had been losing passengers for years. Norfolk took note and launched a year-long public process that produced a new bus network this month which a...
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