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--- greater-lynchburg-transit-company [2024/06/06 18:25] – [Bus allocations] 73.40.101.133
+++ greater-lynchburg-transit-company [2025/05/11 18:43] (current) – 172.56.32.213
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 According to general manager, GLTC has 791 stops as of 2024-02-29. In the past there were as many as 1200 stops. For comparison, Richmond, a much larger city, has 1600 stops in their bus system.
+Had conversation with Josh Moore (General Manager) and learned that any stops installed after ~2000 must be fully ADA compliant and have a logical connection to the rest of the sidewalk network or a nearby business. This is why they are so hesitant to cut down on stops. If they change their mind and want the stop back, it could cost them tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in land acquisition, construction, etc. There is also a "notice of proposed rulemaking" at [I believe] the Federal Transit Authority (FTA) which would require all stops [in FTA-funded systems, I presume] to be fully ADA-compliant. That would trigger a mass-removal of GLTC stops. In that case, I suppose they would just sink money into fairly widely spaced, high-quality stops, but the short term effect would certainly be bad for riders.
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 | 4 | 3 | 30m |
 | 5 | 0.5 | 120m |
-| 8 | 2 | 60m |
+| 8 | 1 | 60m |
 | 9 | 1 | 60m |
 | 10 | 1 | 60m |
 | 11 | 0.5 | 120m |
 | 12 | 1 | 60m |
+Not sure where 14th bus goes. Extra?
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 There is a new gltc flex fare app in which you can buy Transit tickets it also appears you can buy Transit tickets in the transit app I will need to do more investigation to figure out what the link between those is the gltc flexfare app links you to the transit app to plan a trip the ticket purchasing in the transit app is powered by the just ride SDK.
 There's an old saying that a broken clock is right twice a day well earlier I thought that the 5-minute early buses for the live times but now I see that bus 3B and bus 4 were both showing 2 minutes from now on their 5-minute early buses when they were both already in the station so if those were the live buses then they would have shown bus instead of 2 minutes at this point I don't know what the 5-minute early buses are about maybe it shows a 5-minute early bus for every bus that's on schedule and now the five minute early bus is all are showing no time but they're not showing the bus icon either. Okay now the 5-minute early buses are all showing bus arriving even bus to when no buses arriving so I think they just have loaded in a schedule for the buses that shows two buses on each route One 5 minutes before the other one which does not make any sense at all what so ever.
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+This doc has an org chart in it: https://gltconline.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/EEO-Policy-202223.pdf
+Central Virginia Transit Management Company, Inc. may be real name of GLTC. Need more research.