Join us at Monday’s Riders Meeting!
Join CPT for our August Riders Meeting Monday, August 19th at 6pm.
All Aboard Ohio is located in Tower City above American Greetings (the corner office near the 2nd level food court).
Call or text us at 216-714-2164 with any questions.
See you there!
Redesign Study Shows Only 20% of Riders Prefer the Current RTA Network to Alternatives.
Will RTA Take Action?
Given that only 20% think RTA’s current network should be continued we continue to demand that RTA conduct a full system redesign with extensive outreach directly to riders.
What do you think? Let us know at our next riders meeting.
RTA Fare Equity Study Shows that RTA Fares Aren’t Fair!
Together with the System Redesign Study, RTA is conducting a Fare Equity Study to reevaluate the fare structure. During the August 6 Board Committee Meetings, RTA’s consultant (LTK Engineering) updated RTA on the progress of the study.
Key findings included that a significant number of riders (especially low-income and minority riders) are paying for one-way fares or day-passes when they take enough trips to justify the buying weekly or monthly passes.
LTK offers several immediate actions in order to better understand how riders are transferring as well as several fare-policy recommendations including reducing the price of day-passes, as well as possible changes to a future fare collection system that would allow account-based features.
Long-term, LTK recommends considering fare-capping — a recommendation that Clevelanders for Public Transit made in 2018 as part of our Fair Fares platform.
If you’re interested in learning more about the recommendations, we have audio from the presentation and RTA has the slide deck available on their website.
Watch this video from TransitCenter for more information about fare capping.