A new transit center opened on Monday at Juneau’s Mendenhall Mall. It comes with revamped bus routes that the city hopes will provide faster, more consistent service.
The transit center acts as a hub, with five spaces for buses to pick up passengers. It has a park-and-ride lot, with a few EV-charging spots.For her, it was personal. She and her partner lived in the Valley without a car for about a year and a half, she said.
“I like to joke about my life as a public policy experiment, except in this case, it was our lives as a public policy experiment,” Hale said. “And I learned a lot about public transit in Juneau, from that public policy experiment.” She says the new transit center will reduce the burden on parking downtown by letting people park and ride into town on the express bus.
“There are so many commuters who could be taking the bus who don’t,” Hale said. “And if we can take this step where commuters realize, you know, you go park there, you jump on the bus, in 15 minutes you’re downtown.”“I have lots of thoughts, because when you ride the bus for a year, you have a lot of time to think about these things,” she said.
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