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On paper, the WRTA service helps
community members travel around
Worcester without breaking the bank,
offering free transportation to work,
school, healthcare, food, friends, and
family. In practice, however, just because
bus fares are free doesn’t mean they are
easier than using a car. For example,
buses generally run every 30 to 60
minutes, the routes don’t serve several
areas people need to get ... read moreto, and many
still have negative attitudes towards riding
public transit.
As Worcester’s population continues to
grow, it becomes more important to
improve the WRTA and better support new
community members. One of the first
steps in upgrading public transit should
be buses arriving more often, leading
more commuters to choose the bus
instead of a car, reducing any extra traffic.
It’s a solution transportation experts call
“high-frequency” bus service. When it is
easy to navigate Worcester, people have more
opportunities to reach healthcare and
spend money at local businesses,
boosting public health and the economy.
This report offers an overview of the work
done by the Real Rapid Transit Coalition,
offering a vision of what this kind of high frequency bus service in Worcester might
look like.
The Real Rapid Transit Coalition is led by the Urban Attitudes Lab at Tufts
University, in partnership with Strong Towns Worcester, Worcester Caribbean
American Carnival Association (WCACA), Riders Action Council, and the John
J. Binienda Center for Civic Engagement at Worcester State University.read less
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