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This first no-budget growth alternative is a short-term service improvement plan. Its focus is to provide modest modifications to the existing system. This scenario is illustrated in this report in Figure 2. Some of these changes can be implemented with limited disruption. However, full implementation of this alternative effects 43% of system service.

Implementation of this alternative will improve the quality of Transfort operations as well as increase the productivity of the Transfort system. Model analysis estimates a 16% increase in system productivity. However, transit systems should expect a twelve to eighteen month adjustment period where some patrons are lost and new patrons begin using Transfort service. Transfort may experience an initial loss in ridership during this period, but expect to recover and increase ridership levels by the end of the period.

Key changes to the existing service include

• Providing two-way service along a Route 4 that connects CSU with both downtown and the residential communities currently served by the route;
• Providing service through CSU that continues to downtown rather than terminating at CSU;
• Straightening and simplifying Route 5, setting the framework for a grid-like operation on Lemay; and
• Simplifying Routes 7, eliminating unproductive detours.
• Eliminating low producing routes: Route 9, Route 10, and the Southside Shuttle.

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