NEW BUSINESS  12.

COMMITTEE MEMORANDUM

KEY INTENDED OUTCOME:
Ensure Comprehensive Mobility Addressing All Modes Throughout The City

HISTORY:

It is important to highlight that the City's trolley vehicles, whether low-floor or high-floor, are fully ADA compliant and meet all ADA requirements.  Accessibility of the trolleys has been discussed at numerous City Commission and Committee meetings.

Below is a chronology of meetings which have included discussions and direction on accessibility of trolley vehicles:

• April 15, 2015 City Commission

• October 21, 2015 City Commission

• May 13, 2016 Neighborhood/Community Affairs Committee (NCAC)

• June 8, 2016 City Commission

• July 20, 2016 City Commission

• September 16, 2016 NCAC

• October 19, 2016 City Commission

Ultimately, the City Commission recommended that the Administration deploy low-floor trolleys on the South Beach Trolley route. Given that the trolley service would replace the County-operated South Beach Local service which utilized low-floor buses, the low-floor trolleys on this route would provide a comparable level of accessibility. 

Pursuant to City Commission direction from the April 15, 2015 Commission meeting, going forward, only low-floor trolley vehicles are to be acquired for the existing or any new trolley routes in the City.

ANALYSIS:

The City's interconnected trolley system consists of the following four (4) routes:

• North Beach Loop
• Commenced on October 29, 2014
• Average daily ridership 2,300 per day (November 2017)
• 4 trolley vehicles (3 modified high-floor/kneeling and 1 high-floor)

• Middle Beach Loop
• Commenced on November 22, 2016
• Average daily ridership 2,700 per day (November 2017)
• 6 modified high-floor/kneeling vehicles

• Collins Express
• Commenced as Collins Link on December 22, 2016.  Collins Express replaced Collins Link on November 1, 2017
• Average daily ridership 3,600 per day (November 2017)
• 5 modified high-floor/kneeling vehicles

• South Beach Trolley
• Soft launched on November 1, 2017. Full implementation on November 20, 2017
• Average daily ridership 4,000 per day (November 20 to November 30, 2017)
• 10 low-floor trolley vehicles

Based on data for the month of November 2017, the average daily ridership of the citywide trolley system is approximately 13,000 passengers per day. Attachment A depicts the citywide trolley system map.

CONCLUSION:
This item is being presented to the Neighborhood/Community Affairs Committee for discussion.