City Council Meeting

Kanti Srikanthwell BRT bus rapid transit systems are more are cheaper equally efficient and it gives you the flexibility of changing routes as needed so they said well Northern Virginia Transportation Authority took about more than a year and plan of about 28 corridors within northern Virginia where BRT systems can be built. So the DMV moves then, why don't we do this? Why don't we as a region, all 24 jurisdictions and the three states come together, and pick six or seven of those corridors, and commit to implementing and operating them within the next six to seven years? And we will then realize the benefits of that, and then we can tackle the rest. So that was his second recommendation. They picked about seven corridors.

Two of those are rated very high on the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority's BRT plan. The third recommendation was acknowledging local transit systems and the VRE and MARC systems need both operating and capital funding. They have unfunded needs. So they have identified what it is. And the last thing is the one that I mentioned earlier. 14 different bus systems, but they're doing a great job. They're providing excellent service, but they're also operating independently. So the idea is, could we have them coordinate and collaborate more closely so that there are time transfers? When I get off at the border of the city of Fairfax and if I need to catch them on a Womata bus, it should be such that when I get off this bus,

want to say, I think Mr. Peterson may know more about this than I do, regrettably. I'm unable to recall there are 28 corridors that the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority has identified. I suspect there are a couple that goes through the city. I'm not sure. But the two that has currently been selected are not within the larger population of 28 corridors. So these are again seen as proof of concept, if you will. Because designing, implementing, and operating a bus rapid transit system will require a lot of coordination on a number of things, including how the bus stops are designed, what type of buses are procured, what is the fare. you would not be expecting to pay for the fare once on the bus.