Credit: City of Mountain ViewĪs the region continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bay Area Monitor talked to officials representing MacArthur BART and the City of Mountain View to hear what’s in store. Planned layout for Mountain View Mobility Hub. Meanwhile, similar interest in tackling carbon reduction goals is driving mobility hub planning efforts in other parts of California like San Diego and Orange County. About 64 percent of Minneapolis users said improved place-making and wayfinding “make them more likely” to use the mobility hub’s transportation options.
Public feedback from a 2019, three-month mobility hub pilot in Minneapolis also reflects the potential. Mobility hubs aren’t necessarily a fresh concept, Singa added, but growth in transportation options, coupled with hubs’ community emphasis, underscores the opportunity. It also earmarked an additional $150,000 for place-making assistance to help BART and cities involved in the pilot create well-functioning hubs. One potential challenge for pilot participants could be attracting private mobility vendors to areas that are outside their business model, Singa said. The transportation planning agency granted $2.7 million in funding to launch the regional pilot program across the sites. Mobility hubs live in MTC’s climate initiative strategy in Plan Bay Area (PBA) 2050 and PBA 2040. Pilot sites chosen for mobility makeovers include the MacArthur BART Station, Bishop Ranch Business Park, the Temporary Transbay Terminal, Caltrain Burlingame Station/Burlingame Square Transit Hub, Millbrae BART and Caltrain Station/Millbrae Transit Center, Mountain View Caltrain Station/Transit Center, and the Vallejo Ferry Terminal.Įach has an existing bus, rail, ferry, bike-share, or car-share anchor service and resides in a priority development area, equity priority community, or other high-resource areas. “What is missing from all these locations is place-making elements.” They can provide seating, bike charging, bike-fix stations, wayfinding signs, and other types of “place-making” design features to integrate transit areas into the community.Ĭities such as “Oakland and San Francisco have bike-share stations next to bus stops, so these multi-modal hubs already exist,” said Krute Singa, principal regional planner at MTC. Hubs also can be conceived as a place to go. The goal is that the regional program would make it easier for people to hop between transportation modes, whether rail to an electric scooter or bus to car-share and bridge first-and-last-mile connection gaps. MTC officials believe the pilot will help lower greenhouse gas emissions by reducing vehicle-miles traveled (VMT) and contributing to daily commute habit changes in the future. It defines mobility hubs as “community anchors that enable travelers of all backgrounds and abilities to access multiple transportation options - including shared scooters, bicycles and cars, and transit - as well as supportive amenities in a cohesive space,” according to meeting materials. Seven sites across the Bay Area, including the MacArthur BART Station, will morph into mobility hubs in the next few years, clustering various transportation options and services into a safe, welcoming, and inclusive space to reduce the number of cars on roads.Ī mobility hubs pilot program approved by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) on September 22 drives the transformation. Transportation planners are looking to change that. But the station isn’t necessarily known as a comfortable or convenient place where people stick around too long. Credit: Office of BART District ArchitectĬommuters going in and out of the MacArthur BART Station in Oakland’s Temescal District consider the hub convenient because it runs multiple lines and frequent service.
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