Route 9 Route 9 generally travels east - west serving downtown and the Downtown ransit Center, several elementary schools, Lincoln Junior High School, Poudre High School, Poudre Valley Hospital, and EPIC (Edora Park Ice Center). he route is shaped like a lopsided figure eight with an extension to EPIC. he extension begins at the route s eastern terminus, EPIC. he figure-eight begins at Lemay and Riverside, where the route takes several turns to reach the DC. he second half of the figure eight begins at the DC, where the route travels a low-density residential loop out Vine to Overland and back along LaPorte to return to the DC. From DC, the last quarter of the figure eight is completed as Route 9 follows an eastbound routing along Riverside to Lemay. From here it travels along the same streets as it did in the westbound direction as it returns to the eastern terminus at EPIC. Eastbound and westbound trips both travel the same direction on the figure eight portion of the route clockwise from the DC to Lemay and Riverside, counter-clockwise from DC to Overland and Vine. he first bus leaves DC at 4:52 AM traveling in the westbound direction. East bound service begins at 6:22 AM. he last eastbound run leaves Overland and Vine at 6:02 PM, and service ends at 6:35 PM at EPIC. he route provides year-round 60-minute service. An afternoon trailer bus runs on Route 9 Monday through Friday when Poudre School District is in session, making one loop along the western portion of the figure eight from the DC to Vine and Overland and back. he 9, as it is known, leaves the DC at 2:52 PM and deadheads to Lincoln Junior High School. After picking up passengers at the Junior High, the bus follows the standard routing, making all stops as it completes the loop back to DC. Service ends at DC at 3:15 PM. Ridership ype As shown in Figure 4-33 youth represent the majority of the riders on Route 9. he route provides direct service to Lincoln Junior High and Poudre High School. he general public is the next most-represented group with 23% of the ridership. Page 4-41 Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
Figure 4-33 Route 9: Ridership ype by Fare Category Senior Citizens 4% Disabled 12% CSU Students 3% General Public 23% Youth 58% Connections to Other Routes Passengers on Route 9 can transfer to all the routes that serve the Downtown ransit Center (Routes 1, 4, 5, 8, and 14.) In addition, Route 9 intersects Route 10 near EPIC, although this is not a timed transfer. Ridership In 1999, Route 9 carried an average of 25 passengers per hour, slightly below the systemwide average of 26 passengers per hour. In total, annual 1999 ridership on Route 9 was 94,396 passengers. Given that youth make up 60% of the route s ridership, it is not surprising that ridership levels drop while the Poudre School District is not in session. It is also not surprising that farebox revenues on this route are low year-round because youths ride for free. Boardings by Stop (Figure 4-36) he stops along Route 9 with the greatest number of passenger boardings are shown in Figures 4-34 and 4-35. his full-day ridecheck data was collected on November 10, 1999. otal ridership on this date was 359 trips; 191 traveling eastbound and 168 traveling westbound. he most active boarding stops in the eastbound direction were Overland-Vine and LaPorte-Impala. his latter stop serves Poudre High School. In the westbound direction, over 35% of passengers boarded at the Downtown ransit Center. Page 4-42 Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
Figure 4-34 Route 9: Key Stops, Eastbound Direction Stop Location Boardings % of Boardings Overland - Vine 38 19.9% LaPorte - Impala 38 19.9% Downtown ransit Center 35 18.3% LaPorte - Briarwood 20 10.5% One Day otal Boardings, All Stops 191 100% Figure 4-35 Route 9: Key Stops, Westbound Direction Stop Location Boardings % of Boardings Downtown ransit Center 60 35.7% EPIC 34 20.2% Lincoln Jr. High 9 5.4% Lemay - Elizabeth - Pennock 9 5.4% One Day otal Boardings, All Stops 168 100% otal boardings for the day by stop are shown graphically in Figure 4-36. Figure 4-36 also shows the employment and housing density by AZ along the route. Page 4-43 Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates
n nelson\nygaard n Conifer St Lincoln JHS Shields St Vine Dr Downtown ransit Center Cherry St 20 30 60 >60 Center Ave Whitcomb St Shields St Meridian St high Households per sq. mi. Source: 1998 North Front Range ransportation & Air Quality Planning Council (MPO) Raintree Dr Senior Center Elizabeth St Riv er side Ave Poudre Valley Hospital Lesher JHS Parkway Dr Prospect Rd Midpoi nt EPIC Stuart St d Dr med na ve Library & Museum Pitkins St high med low col Stuart St very low Lin Center for Advanced echnology Johnson Dr Dartmouth rl Stover St Route Frequency (min) University McClellan 105 101+ Boardings % CSU ransit Center low 51-100 Boardings very low CSU 0 Drake Rd Drake Rd D r 1-5 Boardings 6-10 Boardings 11-20 Boardings 21-50 Boardings Peterson St Je ffe rso ns t Magnolia St South Dr Prospect Rd Employment per sq. mi. otal Weekday Boardings Olive St Howes St Mason St City Park Ave Constitution Ave aft Hill Rd Boardings in this direction North Dr Elizabeth St Overland rail Laurel St Plum St Boardings in this direction ns LEGEND ransit Center Downtown Old own Court House de Mountain Ave Poudre HS Lin Whedbee St Remington St Mathews St CSU Foothills Campus College Ave Laporte Ave Meldrum St Ridecheck taken on Wednesday, 11-10-99 Maple St City Hall Laporte Ave 9 imberline Rd Overland rail 9th St Lemay Ave Lemay Ave Weekday Boardings Pink Route Stover St Vine Dr aft Hill Rd RANSFOR t Wood St Figure 4-36 Blue Spruce Dr College Ave consulting associates 0.5 1 Mile
On ime Performance On-time performance data for Route 9 was collected at the same time as the ridecheck taken on November 10, 1999. Heading eastbound, Route 9 is consistently late from Overland and Vine to the DC. he time point prior to the DC (Howes - La Porte) showed that the bus was more than five minutes late nearly 60% of the time. he bus makes up some time after passing through the DC. Of the 12 eastbound runs on Route 9, nine (75%) operated late at selected timepoints. wo of these runs ran early at other timepoints. One other run operated early at selected timepoints. Westbound, the bus arrived late at timepoints on two of 12 runs and early on four of 12 runs. Driver Comments ransfort drivers participated in discussions to gather input on each route. Driver comments about the schedule, routing and performance of Route 9 are summarized below. From the transit center eastbound, the route works well. here are very narrow turn lanes on at Elizabeth. he bus schedule is NO tight in the westbound direction. here is no need to travel by Poudre Valley Hospital in both directions. he bus should not pull into Lincoln Junior High School. Gang members tend to hang out in this area, it s a no revenue area, and the kids who ride the bus can walk out to the road. Page 4-45 Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates