The survey functions poorly for me. Is anyone else experiencing this?
It works for me except the part where you drop the pins on the map.
It didn’t even give me that page!
Last day to fill this one out
Bikeshare survey! Some additional thoughts below, but I’ll throw the link directly in here as well.
This should be a fan favorite lol.
U.S. 1 (Capital Blvd.) North Tolling Options:
FYI there was a presentation from CAMPO to city council on this topic (the US 1 changes) this past week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsVd85pGJgo . It starts at 1:02:00.
I watched it live! Thanks for sharing the link.
It’s 2055 Metropolitan Transportation Plan (MTP) Time:
Please share this with your family (kids included), friends and coworkers! Thanks! 
I’d like to highly encourage everyone on this forum to dig into these surveys published by the city. There are a few so it may take a little time, but I think very important. I got this from the Livable Raleigh mail list so I expect their people will be putting their 2 cents in. Also, consider reading some of the comments and upvote or “agree” with those you agree with to support those comments.
I LOVE this style of question:
Kind of like fantasy city making or Sim City. You want it all, but…you can’t have it all without paying.
Done, I just took all of them except the last survey.
Another survey posted in another thread by @keita
This isn’t so much about an ongoing survey as it is about the results of one: the city and GoTriangle sponsored a study on GoPasses that were handed out through the Transit Assistance Program (TAP), and is hearing about its results today.
TAP GoPasses were aimed at trying to keep the higher bus ridership of 2020-24 by letting people from low-income households ride free while returning to fares for the people who can afford them. Since this study randomly surveyed existing TAP GoPass users, it’s a more rigorous analysis than traditional ridership surveys that transit agencies do (which are primarily online and dependent on people self-identifying responses in less controlled environments).
Previous surveys often categorized why people are riding buses per individual trip. But if we look at that per person, instead, and let them select multiple options for why they use them, TAP users take the bus for a bigger, more equally-distributed variety of reasons than you’d have previously thought:
Out of the 225 riders surveyed, 74% of them paid fares on their own (i.e. not through existing fare-free programs like university GoPasses). It seems like there’s an inverse relationship between people who struggled to pay to ride buses pre-pandemic versus people who took the bus 13+ days per month.
…so naturally, 54% of TAP users said they probably or definitely wouldn’t keep riding buses as much, if they weren’t able to get the help they’ve been getting.
The bills that TAP users have had the most difficulty paying should not surprise you as long as you’re not a privileged prick living under a rock:
…and, if the TAP program is ever gutted, a majority of these people would either struggle and move on or compensate by buying less food and groceries. (There’s your depressing local fact of the day I guess).
And if that wasn’t sad enough, 12% of respondents flat-out said that they’d have no other way to get around despite how that wasn’t an actual answer on the survey.
Before you say any insensitive things about how these people need to go to school or go find a job, 72% of survey respondents have full- or part-time jobs, and an additional 7% are full-time students.
There’s also more interesting case studies about TAP users in Healing Transitions, a residential detox community where most users aren’t from the Triangle and are initially not allowed to have cell phones/to drive/to have a job due to their recovery program. It’s an interesting glimpse into how strict and uniquely challenging the substance abuse recovery process is, from a practical perspective.
as i recall…for decades seniors got reduced or free bus fare, state employess could commute for free, the disabled got reduced or free fare…i have no issue with extreme low income people gettin free or reduced fare…i thought this had been going on for a long time?
Some of those things are true - but it sounds like you’re getting a few things confused.
The “GoPass” is just a catch-all name for anything you use to buy your way on board a bus without paying in cash. They were available to people free of charge if they were:
- Employees of certain companies or government agencies, though some employers required GoPasses to be bought, first
- Seniors of age 65+ since August 2019; they paid discounted fares before then
- Kids of ages 13-18 since Aug. 2018
Although it’s not a GoPass, people with disabilities could also ride at a discounted price if they could show documents meeting certain criteria.
On the other hand, the TAP program is a new, specific expansion of GoPasses that GoRaleigh and GoTriangle pursued when they brought back fares last July. It’s a part of a two-pronged fare reform that got rid of things like express fares (remember how the DRX was more expensive than the 100 once upon a time?) and the poverty trap (where, if you took enough bus trips every month, you’d spent more money on fares if you paid in cash every ride versus if you could afford to buy one 7- or 31-day bulk of day passes).