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The same trip takes 15 minutes by car, 25 minutes by bike, or 80 minutes on foot.
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The Route 7 bus that serves the area currently runs every 30 minutes, and takes 30 minutes to make the trip from the downtown Union Station transit hub to the end of the route at the Washington Heights apartment complex. More controversially, Kalter also thinks that the WRTA should trim some of its more convoluted route diversions in outlying suburban neighborhoods.įor instance, his proposal would eliminate service along Mill Street on the city’s suburban west side, where there are several large affordable housing complexes. Courtesy of Garren Kalter and Clark University. Tan areas show the areas within walking distance of Kalter’s proposed new bus routes existing WRTA bus routes are shown as purple lines. A map of Garren Kalter’s proposed route consolidation for the WRTA. If you just ran a single high-quality line on Main Street, it becomes more legible and more reliable for folks,” Kalter said. For instance, the 27, the 19, and the 33 all run on Main Street and often will leapfrog each other.
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“There are lots of wonky diversions in the system, and redundancies. Kalter’s recommendations for the WRTA have three main components: first, he thinks the agency should reduce the number of bus routes it has, and focus its service on a handful of key corridors throughout the city. So there are a variety of reasons people avoid it.” “I did a bit of survey research at the beginning (of this project) before it was a formal thesis, and found that, even though Clark gets some of the best service in town, with five lines that go by the campus, a lot of Clark students are confused about the bus network, or the fares were prohibitive, or there were transfers that were required. “Prior to the report, I rode WRTA fairly minimally,” Kalter told StreetsblogMASS in a phone interview last week. Garren Kalter decided to study the WRTA last year when he was an undergraduate at Worcester’s Clark University, at the recommendation of City Councilor Morris Bergman. In a new research paper, a Worcester college student has proposed a bus network redesign for the Worcester Regional Transit Authority (WRTA) that would dramatically increase service frequencies – with buses running every 10 minutes – and speed up bus trips on a network of dedicated bus lanes on the city’s wide arterial streets.