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CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities | 2017-02-08 | 5 | members say, "We don't want one-hour's frequency, we want more frequent service." That was the most common complaint we received. We have only so much money and so much time, so we decided to increase the frequency to 30-minute frequencies. We have three different loops, Tuesday is the west end loop, Wednesday is the east end loop and includes Bay Farm Island, and Thursday is the central loop. And so instead of operating on one-hour loops, there will be frequency of every 30 minutes. We think that that will be a much better service. It's open to the general public, it targets locations where seniors and individuals with disabilities are more apt to go. And we are looking at rebranding it and right now it's called the Alameda Paratransit Shuttle. And in our survey, the top name for rebranding it is Alameda Loop, and it does makes sense because it does have these loops for each day. Gail Payne: As for the taxi service, we have the Premium Taxi Program. Right now it's a 50% reduction in taxi trips. We want to increase that to 70% because we have money in our budget to do SO. Measure BB was just passed in 2014 so we have all these additional revenues, so why don't we provide better service with additional subsidies? So that's what we are recommending. Increasing the subsidy of taxi trips from 50% to 70%. So the voucher cost right now is $2.50 and consumers get $5 voucher back. What we're recommending is instead of providing $2.50, they would provide $3 and get a $10 taxi voucher back. So they will have to be paying 50 cents more for that travel voucher but instead of receiving a $5 voucher back, they'll receive $10 voucher. Most trips are at least $11 for a taxi trip, so we think this will work well. Gail Payne: For other program changes, we'll be considering a new program for the Volunteer Driver 5 | CommissiononPersonswithDisabilities/2017-02-08.pdf |