HomeMy WebLinkAboutTransportation Committee Minutes 2.13.2024 (approved)
Attendees:
Al Hartman Sean Lynch Jim Collins, Transportation Director
Evelyn Meuret Deb Martin Steve Tomasik, Transit Operations Mgr.
Jeff Armstrong Lynnsey Erickson, Council Jane Weber, Secretary
Also Present: OPD Representative – Lt. Kraemer Excused: Jim Stapel
The meeting was called to order by Al Hartman who then explained protocol for public comment.
Public Comment
No members from the public present.
Roll Call & Approval of Minutes
After roll call, Evelyn Meuret made a motion to approve the minutes from the January meeting, seconded
by Sean Lynch. Motion carried after roll-call vote.
Old Business
N/A
New Business
1) Presentation of Draft Recommendations for the Transit Development Plan -
Jim Collins explained that the Transit Development Plan is basically a strategic plan that takes place
approximately every 5 years. He stated the East Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
along with GO Transit selected SRF Consulting for this project. He then introduced Matt Stegeman
(SRF) who took the lead on the remote presentation of the initial recommondations resulting from their
extensive process which began in May of 2023. Matt explained that Jacob from SRF would also be his
co-presenter. Matt said after gathering input from stakeholders, drivers, local businesses and residents
the study was able to identify some areas for improvement. The final step of the process will be to a
public hearing at the March Transit Advisory Committee meeting after which they will prepare a final
recoomendations to be presented to the Ctiy Common Council at their April 9th meeting. The projected
date of short-term recomendations is tentatively August 1, 2024.
Matt said both route changes and a few policy changes were identified as a result of their findings.
The most impactful changes deal with interling changes. He defined the term interlining as routes that
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change into another route. Matt then led a PowerPoint Presentation (attached) that went through their
recommendations.
Matt finished by inviting any comments or questions from the Committee members:
• Al Hartman asked if the route by the Campus was completely eliminated. Steve Tomasik said due
to low ridership on Route 5, this change shouldn’t be an issue as Route 3 will be going through the
campus area on High Avenue on the way to the Transit Center to accommodate the campus area.
• Deb Martin thought the fact that Oshkosh DMV will be an added stop was awesome. She then
asked about how many survey’s were actually returned from the public. Matt said he thought 100-
200 were received back from the public. He also reminded the Committee members that this first
document is just “draft” recommendations and the final document will be prepared after the public
hearing. Deb also liked that Route 4 would be expanded further north to help people get to and
from work in that area. Matt said some of the businesses responded back with their work shift
structure which gave them a better understanding of their transit needs from an employer
perspective.
• Evelyn asked what impact the fare changes will have on Senior fares and asked how the day pass
will work as it seems it may be the same amount of interaction with the drivers. Jim confirmed the
Senior fare will still be half price when the fare increases from $1.50 to $2.00 As far as the day pass,
the details of the actual procedure are still being worked out. He also said part of the long term goal
is to consider a Microtranist on-demand service to expand to new destinations but right now, the
short term changes are priority.
At 4:56 p.m., Jim was informed that the room is booked for a 5:00 p.m. meeting so he suggested to
Chairman Hartman to skip staff statements until next meeting.
Chairman Hartman also had to skip entertaining future agenda requests due to time constraints and then
asked for a motion to adjourn.
Sean Lynch made a motion to adjorn, seconded by Lynnsey Erickson. Meeting adjourned at 4:58 pm after
a roll-call vote.
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