At one time the system had an on-time performance of 78 percent. Through a renewed emphasis on delivering ontime service we have since modified our routes in an effort to reduce one-way loops, retimed our schedules and reviewed our transit stops. All this enables us to provide more direct and reliable service. Today, our on-time performance stands at 91 percent. We also recently launched new routes designed with speed in mind. We have built three park and ride facilities, a state-of-the-art transit facility, developed and implemented six express routes. These express routes bring commuters from their residential neighborhoods into Southern Nevada’s core business district, downtown Las Vegas and the Las Vegas Strip. They provide transit riders with faster service with fewer stops that feed into the Bonneville Transit Center (BTC), the central hub for all our transit routes. Ridership on most of our express routes has grown by more than 50 percent with more and more choice riders leaving behind their vehicles and relying on the RTC to do the driving for them. For our millions of annual visitors, we purchased Alexander Dennis double-deck vehicles and launched the Deuce on the Strip service. These double decks provide the best view of the Las Vegas Strip while ferrying nearly 24,000 passengers per day to dozens of destinations on the Strip and in downtown Las Vegas. This is clearly our most popular service.
BUSRide
We recently launched the Strip & Downtown Express Bus Rapid Transit Service to accommodate travelers who needing to get to their destinations on the Strip quicker. Similar to our other express routes, this service provides tourists with faster service with fewer stops and carries more than 16,000 riders a day. Combined, both services carry over 40,000 passengers per day along the Strip. Today, these two routes not only pay for themselves but also generate additional revenue that subsidizes residential transit routes in our system. Together, they provide fast, frequent and convenient services that link the world-famous Las Vegas Strip with downtown Las Vegas in true Las Vegas style. Despite the economic recession, last year our transit system operating on 39 routes carried more than 57 million riders. Carrying 184,000 people each day, ridership is up eight percent from this time last year. We attribute much of this success to the vision and direction of RTC to provide a quicker, cleaner and greener public transportation system that our community and our tourists choose to ride. BR Jacob Snow recently departed the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada after 13 years as the general manager. He is now the city manager for the City of Henderson, NV.
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