The Michigan Land Use Institute has worked with BATA in Traverse City to release a report titled "Expanding Transportation Choices in the Grand Traverse Region." The report shows an interest among riders for more fixed schedule routes in rural areas of the region.
From the Michigan Land Use Institute:
the new report focuses on the other, smaller part of BATA’s service—its fairly new, fixed-route Village Connectors. Connector riders and bus drivers quoted in the report agree that adding more frequent, better-promoted Village Connectors would attract many more people.
The report, with its from-the field observations and advice, arrives as the next phase of a vastly larger study, the citizen-based Grand Vision transportation and land use project, gets underway.
Read the full Michigan Land Use Institute press release to learn more about this study, as well as other methods BATA is using to discover and address riders' needs.