MetroFuture would more than double the number of trips made on transit, through expansion and improvements to the existing system; creation of more suburban transit services; land use plans and site designs that promote transit use; and a steady increase in gas prices.

Central Transportation Planning Staff transportation modeling results indicate that MetroFuture could increase the number of transit trips by at least 50%. MetroFuture has established a more ambitious goal of more than doubling the regional transit mode share, from 6.3% to 13.8%, based on the expectation that the region would pursue more ambitious improvements to transit and land use than accounted for in the CTPS model.

Applied to a growing number of trips overall, this mode split means that the number of total transit trips regionwide would increase by 150%, from 900,000 to 2.2 million. Since many commuter trips are easier to serve with transit due to their predictability, the relative increase in the number of commuter trips made via transit would be even greater (200% increase).

If Current Trends continue, transit mode share would increase slowly, to just 7.8%. People will find transit to be increasingly inconvenient, due to the dispersal of land uses, poor service quality, and lack of access.

Objectives:

• Regional mode share for public transit would increase from 6.3% to 13.9%.
• The number of people who take transit to work will triple.
• The region would see 2.2 million daily trips transit ridership