VIA Metropolitan Transit is planning to function its new, speedy transit bus by 2027 or 2028 and has already began building on street and sidewalk enhancements.
Now it’s in search of approval from the Metropolis of San Antonio for its Inexperienced Line station designs because it prepares so as to add 26 stops alongside a 10-mile route between Brooks and the San Antonio Worldwide Airport.
VIA shared three bus station designs in an software to the town’s Historic and Design Evaluate Fee, which is able to contemplate approving six of the 26 proposed stations positioned in historic districts.
In keeping with VIA’s software, the bus stations will embody coated areas to guard riders from climate, in addition to maps, ticket merchandising machines, seating and public artwork. Elevated platforms will permit passengers to shortly step on and off buses and speed-up public transit.
VIA plans to construct three forms of stations. Heart stations can be constructed in the midst of the road and can have a single, 14-foot-wide platform for north and southbound buses. Curbside stations are 10-foot-wide platforms on the facet of the street with a northbound and southbound station on either side of the road. After which a smaller station known as the “curbside slender” can be used for stops with much less room to construct and can be 8.5 toes huge.
The designs are supposed to complement VIA’s current NextGen bus stops that had been launched in 2012, in keeping with an in depth mission description.
VIA needs the bus stops’ designs and branding to be constant.
The stations will embody maps, incapacity entry and screens to dam unhealthy climate. There may also be papel picado-style panels chosen from a contest amongst native center and highschool college students.
The designs and renderings VIA shared are for six of its 26 proposed bus stations, in keeping with its software. Three are within the Monte Vista neighborhood — the northbound Elsmere, Mulberry and Woodlawn stations. One is in King William, the southbound Pereida Station, and two are within the Mission Historic District, the north and southbound Roosevelt Park Station.
Half of these are curbside stations and the opposite half are curbside slender stations.
VIA’s software can be thought-about by the fee at its Jan. 21 assembly.
