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Attachments:
1. Proposed Route Changes
2. Maps of Proposed
Changes
3. Title VI Assessment
Analysis
DATE:
SUBJECT:
Voting Requirements:
Majority
RECOMMENDATION
Approval of a resolution authorizing the President/Executive Director or his designee to implement
service changes on March 14, 2016.
FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS
.
The recommended modifications to the approved 2016 service levels are included in the
Maintenance and Transportation departments' FY 2016 operating budgets.
Sufficient funding for these FY 2016 service modifications is in the FY 2016 Operating Budget
and the operating expense line item of the FY 2016 Twenty-Year Financial Plan.
The proposed service improvements and reductions have no net impact on the DART operating
budget. The recommended modifications are intended to reallocate existing operating resources in
a manner that will serve more riders.
BUSINESS PURPOSE
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This resolution will help DART achieve the Board Strategic Priority 1: Continually improve
service and safety experiences and perceptions for customers and the public; and Priority 4:
Expand DART's transportation system to serve cities inside and outside the current service area;
and Priority 6: Innovate to improve levels of service, business processes and funding.
On August 11, 2015 (Resolution No. 150073), the Board of Directors approved a call for public
hearing on the March 2016 service modifications.
Five community meetings, including a Saturday meeting at DART, were conducted throughout
the DART Service Area to allow comment and discussion on the proposed changes. A sixth
meeting in Glenn Heights was cancelled. There were approximately 30 total meeting attendees.
DART received over 50 comment cards (via mail and electronically) associated with service
change issues.
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A Public Hearing on the proposed changes was conducted on September 22, 2015, with five
speakers offering comments on the proposed changes.
In response to feedback received during the meetings, staff carefully reviewed and analyzed
comments stated by customers during the public meeting process and via comment cards.
The proposed service changes affect routes in Addison, Carrollton, Dallas, Farmers Branch,
Garland, Glenn Heights, Irving, Richardson, and Rowlett.
The proposed March 2016 Service Changes include two route eliminations, service reductions to
six lower-performing routes, elimination of specific trips on two other routes, service
improvements to eight higher-performing routes (4 weekend and off-peak service span, 2 off-peak
frequency, 2 both), three route extensions, elimination of one DART-on-Call zone, and extended
hours for another DART-on-Call zone.
The recommendations include additional service for the Glenn Heights On Call Zone. Staff
continues to discuss service options with Glenn Heights, including requests for additional
fixed-route service.
The net financial impact of these proposed changes on DART's annual operating budget is
cost-neutral in terms of the costs associated with hours and miles of revenue vehicles. There is no
net increase to the number of peak vehicles required.
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Details on the proposed changes are described in Attachment 1. Maps for affected routes are
included in Attachment 2. Also included is the Title VI Assessment report outlining the disparate
impact and analysis of the recommended changes shown as Attachment 3.
LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS
Section 452.115 of the Texas Transportation Code requires DART to hold a public hearing on service
changes involving 25 percent or more of the number of transit route miles of a transit route; or 25
percent or more of the transit revenue miles of a transit route, computed daily, for the day of the week
for which the change is made; or the establishment of a new route.
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Weekend service span improvements on routes or route segments that do not currently
have 7-day service;
Frequency improvements, primarily during off-peak time periods, of stronger-performing
routes;
Extensions to existing bus routes to expand service coverage and serve new destinations;
Route eliminations;
Reductions to frequency and operating span of weaker-performing routes;
Discontinuation of specific trips that are no longer needed; and
Adjustements to DART-on-Call zones and operating hours
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234 Discontinue route. Orange Line LRT, local bus routes in Irving, and the Las Colinas PRT
system will offer alternate services.
503 Discontinue route. Orange Line LRT, local bus routes in Irving, and the Las Colinas PRT
system will offer alternate services.
Frequency and Span Reductions: These service reductions are targeted to specific routes and
off-peak time periods for which ridership is especially low.
500- Modify service span to eliminate early morning and late evening service as follows:
Weekdays before 5:30 a.m. and after 9:30 p.m.; Saturdays before 6:00 a.m. and after 9:30 p.m.;
and Sundays before 7:00 a.m. and after 8:00 p.m. Modify service frequency from every 30
minutes (peak)/ every 40 minutes (base, evenings, and weekends) to every 30 minutes (peak)/
every 60 minutes (base, evenings, and weekends). Trip times may be adjusted.
507- Modify service span eliminate weekday service after 9:30 p.m. Trip times may be adjusted.
510- Modify service span eliminate weekday service after 9:30 p.m. Trip times may be adjusted.
526- Modify service frequency from every 30 minutes (peak)/ every 40 minutes (base, evenings,
and weekends) to every 30 minutes (peak)/ every 60 minutes (base, evenings, and weekends).
Trip times may be adjusted.
529- Modify service frequency from every 30 minutes (peak)/ every 40 minutes (base, evenings,
and weekends) to every 30 minutes (peak)/ every 60 minutes (base, evenings, and weekends).
Trip times may be adjusted.
533- Modify service span eliminate weekday service after 7:00 p.m. Trip times may be adjusted.
Elimination of Specific Trips: The specific trips that are proposed for elimination were
originally implemented for reasons that are no longer applicable, or will no longer be applicable
with the proposed service improvements. These trip eliminations will not leave any passengers
without service for any time period.
The following two bus routes would be modified as a result of the elimination of these specific
trips:
60- Modify route; discontinue service along La Vista between East Grand and East Grand
Access Road. The discontinued segment is only served by the seven (7) morning trips and eight
(8) afternoon trips that are being eliminated. Modify peak direction frequency from every 15
minutes to every 30 minutes between Union Station and La Vista.
486- Modify route; discontinue service along Harvest Hill between Preston and Montfort, and on
Montfort between Harvest Hill and Alpha. The discontinued segments are served only by
specific trips during the daytime on Sundays. Modify Sunday daytime frequency from every 30
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ATTACHMENT 2
2016 SERVICE CHANGES
Maps
This attachment contains maps for the route changes that are included in the proposed March
2016 Service Changes. Maps are listed in numerical order in the following pages:
Map 1: Routes with Proposed Weekend Span Improvements
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Map 3: Route 26
ROUTE 26
Proposed Modifications
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ATTACHMENT 3
ASSESSMENT OF PROPOSED FY 2016 BUS ROUTE AND SERVICE MODIFICATIONS
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
INTRODUCTION
Federal Transit Administration regulations require transit agencies to conduct a disparate impact and
disproportionate burden analysis when major service changes affect routes serving minority and/or low
income areas. Implementation of the following modifications requires a major service change:
Nearly all of the service changes that are designated for implementation in March 2016 meet the Major
Change Threshold that is described above. The group of service changes consists of a cost-neutral
package of weekend service span improvements, off-peak frequency improvements, route extensions,
route eliminations, off-peak frequency and span adjustments, and adjustments to the DART-on-Call
demand response program.
This report outlines Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) disparate impact and disproportionate burden
analysis for the July 2015 Service Change. This analysis will examine the proposed changes based on the
following thresholds:
Threshold 1: Is this a Major Service Change? The report will present a Summary of Proposed
Service Changes and Identification of Major Service Changes.
Threshold 2: Are Minority and Low Income Communities Affected? The report will identify the
Major Service Changes that impact a Census tract with Minority (Black/AA, Hispanic, Asian) or
Low Income composition that is greater than the proportion in the DART service area.
Threshold 3: Is there a Disparate Impact on Minority passengers or a Disproportionate Burden on
Low-Income passengers? The report will analyze the service changes for Disparate Impacts and
Disproportionate Burdens.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is planning bus route and service modifications during FY 2016 for
the purpose of improving cost-effectiveness and serving more passengers within current resource
constraints. Because these proposals constitute a major service change, DART has conducted an
assessment of the impact of these service changes on the minority and low income populations of the
DART service area. A set of tables listing the changes is provided on the following pages.
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401
463
488
527
531
Major Service
Change? (why?)
Yes (new service
day)
Yes (>25% increase
in miles and hours on
Sat. /Sun.)
Yes (>25% increase
in miles and hours on
Sundays)
Yes (new service
day)
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Frequency Improvements
Route
Improvement
49
463
527
549
Rationale
Importance to downtown circulation
and ridership potential in Design
District and Market Center.
Midday trips are even busier than peak
trips. Schedule adherence issues will
be addressed.
Strong route, has 15-minute peak
service and performs well all day.
Major Service
Change? (why?)
Yes (Adjusts off-peak
headways by >15
minutes)
Yes (Adjusts off-peak
headways by >15
minutes)
Yes (Adjusts off-peak
headways by >15
minutes)
Yes (Adjusts off-peak
headways by >15
minutes)
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Route Extensions
Route
Improvement
26
385
887
Rationale
Extend to Hatcher Station to serve new
Parkland clinic.
Major Service
Change? (why?)
No (Impacts less than
25% of the route)
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Route Discontinuations
Route
Discontinuation
Rationale
234
Discontinue route
(serves approximately 37
daily passenger trips)
503
Discontinue route
(serves approximately 61
daily passenger trips)
Major Service
Change? (why?)
Yes (eliminates
route)
Yes (eliminates
route)
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Reduction
Rationale
60
Adjust schedule to
discontinue selected
unproductive trips
Adjust schedule to
discontinue selected
Sunday trips
486
500
507
510
526
529
533
Major Service
Change? (why?)
Yes (Impacts peak
headways by >5
minutes on portions)
Yes (Impacts Sunday
headways by >15
minutes on portions
of the route)
Yes, for 500 only:
Impacts off-peak
headways by >15
minutes and >25% of
scheduled
miles/hours)
Yes (Impacts offpeak headways by
>15 minutes on
affected times/days)
No (Impacts <25% of
the scheduled
miles/hours)
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Changes to DART-on-Call
Route
Proposed Change
Glenn
Heights
On Call
Richardson On
Call
Rationale
Provides midday transportation within
Glenn Heights. Connect Glenn
Heights passengers to retail, medical,
other services, and the remainder of the
DART route network in Southern
Dallas. DARTs highest performing
on-call service.
Service carries only about 12
passengers on an average day,
performing well below standards.
Major Service
Change? (why?)
Yes (Increase service
hours by >25%)
Richardson Zone
10
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