Ridership and Coverage are two very important goals of transit, but they are competing goals. Investing more in one means investing less in the other. Transit can’t perfectly meet both goals with a fixed budget.
This is where we need your help. We want to know what type of service you value more: a service focused more on Ridership or more on Coverage. Your feedback will be considered in future planning efforts.
Your input tells us how you would prefer to allocate resources for our transit network all across the region, and will inform decision-makers on what priorities and policies will support your community's goals.
Explore and Comment on the Network Concepts
We developed maps, showing hypothetical Ridership and Coverage concepts. Both concepts assume the same budget, based on existing funding.
Important Note: The concept examples will not become operating routes. They are examples to show what the transit network could look like under different priorities.
These concepts compare designs that illustrate the trade-off between Ridership and Coverage. The colors of route lines represent frequencies (or minutes between buses):
- Red lines represent 15 minutes between buses
- Blue lines represent 30 minutes between buses
- Green lines represent 60 minutes between buses
- Tan lines represent 120 minutes between buses
- Yellow zones represent Dial-a-Ride (Humboldt Flex) zones
Each network concept for Humboldt County is available for review and includes information about how transit service could operate across different communities and areas of the county. Your input will be considered in planning efforts countywide.
To view the Ridership and Coverage network concept maps, which will allow you to zoom and pan the large image, click below.
