Via recently received a Colorado Transit Award for a collaborative project with RTD that has increased ridership and efficiency of service for Via’s paratransit riders and RTD’s Call-n-Ride customers in the city of Longmont.
Presented by the Colorado Association of Transit Agencies, the award recognized the role of Via’s mobility manager, j Hastain, in coordinating the integrated use of Via’s paratransit vehicles and RTD’s Call-n-Ride vehicles to improve ridership and productivity by 25 to 30-percent while reducing the duplication of vehicle use.
Beginning in early October, the coordination project will add RTD’s Access-a-Ride vehicles in Longmont in an effort to achieve even greater productivity.