Tallahassee's StarMetro re-envisioned their bus system this summer:
All of the city’s previous routes went one place: downtown. But by 2005, just 14 percent of the region’s jobs were located there. And the results of a 2009 on-board survey showed that only 6.8 percent of StarMetro’s riders were trying to get there.
Tim De Chant connects this to structural changes in the economy:
It's not that a central business district is a bad idea; it's just that the modern service economy demands that people work all over town. And it's the suburbs that have seen the most dramatic job growth in recent years. Couple these factors with the fluidity of the labor market and you have a workforce that demands mobility. For many people, that means driving a car, but rerouting transit systems to more closely mirror passengers' actual travel patterns is a sensible way to reduce car dependence.
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