Lee on public engagement and implementation percentage for bus lanes
Lee asks what percentage of bus funding goes to implementation. Flynn estimates 50-70% goes to actual bus lanes, with the rest supporting related work. Lee also asks about new bus shelters, with 100 planned this year.
Does any part of this funding go towards public engagement?
How much and what specific actions would be taken to engage the public?
So absolutely, public engagement is a key part of expanding any project, including bus lands.
And just an example of that, as was mentioned before, we have our street ambassador on street units that go out and meet people at bus stops, go business to business down corridors.
And as we're doing more of these projects, we want to make sure we're not just spreading that group more thinly and doing less outreach, but we're staffing up that group, for example, to be able to do the same amount or more outreach with each of the projects that we do.
As a percentage, how much of this funding is dedicated to the implementation of bus lanes?
Thank you for the question, Chair.
So as Deputy Commissioner Beaton said, a bus lane can be many different things.
I'd say on average it's probably about 50 to 70% of it will be for the actual bus lanes, and there will be support for all this work in the new need as well.
When you get the percentage, I would be grateful if you can share that with us.
How many new bus shelters will be installed this year, particularly in transit deserts and along high ridership routes?
So we're going to be installing an additional 100 shelters this year, and thanks to the investment in this executive budget, we're able to install another 100 per year for the next two years as well.
Great.