I cam across this interesting video on City Beautiful which talked about Metro Micro.
https://micro.metro.net
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Apparently Translink did a small scale pilot on Bowen Island (with two vehicles) in 2019, but it would be great to see this adopted in some parts of Surrey or Langley to people from places with challenging bus routing... or places that cross a skytrain line.
This could even work in Vancouver, especially if your trip takes you diagonally along the grid requiring 1 or two connections. A trip from Killarney high school to meet up with friends who are playing baseball at Falaise park is a 40 minute bus ride, or 11 minutes by car.
Oak & 50th to Mountain View Cemetery to pay visit a grave is a 30 minute bus ride or 8 minutes (4.2km) by car.
Those diagonal routes are killer and these are places fairly close to major bus routes.
If you live mid-block, like the 2600 block of William st (intentionally chosen as there's no east/west on 1st ave)... and you're trying to get to some place like Mountain View Cemetery, it's an 8 minute car ride or a walk and a transfer.
I wonder if this would be popular in Surrey or Langley to get to the station.
It would be an additional charge, perhaps a flat rate with a maximum distance... mostly to serve people getting to transit stations... or the elderly.
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