Transit

Old North End neighbors who optimize the network of public transit in the neighborhood.

Mission Of The ONEN Transit Committee

Recognizing that a robust and efficient transit system is essential to the health and mobility of a thriving community, we aim to work with various stakeholders to optimize the network serving our region.  We strongly encourage a distributed system that reduces walking distance for our local riders, and minimizes impact to residents.  We resist permitting our residential streets to be used as a cut-through to connect remote riders between distant urban nodes.

Transit System Must Be Scaled To Our Region
  • We must provide transportation options to those who cannot, or prefer not, to drive
    • It is our duty, and it enhances the vitality of our neighborhood
  • Although vehicular traffic through the Old North End has been falling slowly for many years, there are projections for growth
    • If buses can be packed with neighbors who would otherwise have driven, it will reduce the impact of auto traffic
    • If travel by personal car in our region ever becomes difficult, it will be good to have an established transit system 
  • It would be a disservice not to recognize that transit vehicles also bring negative consequences
  • It does not serve our neighborhood to collect riders from remote areas of the city and divert them through our neighborhood
  • Therefore, we strive to promote a system that is scaled to our region, and we resist becoming the core of a city-wide transit network
Our Plan for Action

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Transit Problems and Solutions

The Key Issue

Our current transit system (routes 9 and 19) is scaled appropriately for our region, but it is inappropriately centralized on two neighboring streets, resulting in distant walks for riders from east and west regions of ONEN and Patty Jewett.  The planned Transit Corridor will have no benefits, substantial costs for our residents, and potentially existential risks to our neighborhood.

Problems

  • City/County plan calls for vast expansion of transit on our residential streets, to serve as connection of major distant urban nodes

  • Poor accessibility to local riders

  • Numerous externalities associated with transit vehicle

    • Noise, transit stations, exhaust, traffic risks, loss of property value

    • Drawbacks potentially concentrated on one street, violating ONEN Master Plan

  • Substantial increase in vehicles and remote riders

Potential Solutions

  • Distributed routes

  • Transit corridor implemented on I-25 and/or rail right-of-way

Transit Studies and Plans

There is evidence of resident action on mass transit concerns going back to 1916.  Mass transit can have substantial costs and benefits for the residents in close proximity.

        • 2004 Rapid Transit System Master Plan – This study commissioned for the city by the Parsons Transportation Group concluded that “no rail or bus lines would run through the historic district”
        • 2016/2017 ONEN Transit Realignment
        • 2019 PPACG 2045 Regional Transit Plan and The North Nevada Corridor Transit Connectivity Study
        • 2017 Review of Transit Effects on Single Family Home Values

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