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There's some key differences in how the next gen network is designed differently than the one we have today.

The first is really more frequent service.

And so we certainly have, and I'll talk about this a little bit more, a lot more of that frequent 15 minute or better service in the network, but also at all of the other frequency levels.

We have a lot more routes that are operating 30 minutes in the new network where you might have a bus every 45 or 60 today.

There are a number of places where you have a bus every 20 minutes in the new network where it was operating 30 or 45 minutes today.

So we do have more frequent service in a lot of places.

We also have throughout the network the routes have been designed to be simpler, more streamlined, and often in a way that requires passengers to make fewer transfers, which saves them time from going from bus to bus or bus to train.

In the cases where we do or do still have transfers, and there are some, we're working to incorporate very specifically timed transfer locations.

There's a really important one in South Fulton County, a little bit outside the city, but one where we think that the residents from the city of South Fulton can benefit.

Those time transfer locations are designed so that multiple routes will come together at the same time, pause for a few minutes so the passengers can transfer from one bus to the other, and then I'll depart.

And really the goal there is how much time people have to wait and to minimize how much time they're waiting outside in the elements.

We'll have more consistent service levels, seven days a week and throughout each day.

So in the new network, we have much more consistent frequency.

There's not as much of a spike between rush hour frequencies and the rest of the day.

So you can expect when you see a frequency, you can really expect a bus to be running and get that frequency during the middle of the day, into the evening, and even on Saturdays and Sundays.

We'll also be incorporating a new on-demand service.

And that's a new type of service that we're going to be operating under the name MARTA Reach.

And I will talk about that a little bit more in a few slides.

But that's essentially a point-to-point on-demand service that will help us kind of create first and last mile connections for some communities into the broader MARDA network.

And all of these things really roll up to provide more access to more places in less time under the next gen bus service.

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So

this is a quick comparison between the two networks, and certainly we know that these are these maps are not intended to be read in detail.

So hopefully you're able just to get a quick snapshot of the colors of the routes in each one.

Really, the colors are coded essentially based on the frequency.

So when you look for the red lines, which indicate that frequent service, in the existing network on the left, you might see five segments where you have red frequent service in the network.

One of those is in the city of South Fulton already on Fulton Industrial Boulevard.

But we only have four other places where buses typically run every 15 minutes or more often.

By contrast, in the next gen network, we have 17 places, 17 corridors where you can expect that 15-minute frequency, including an additional one in South Fulton on Old National Highway.

I'll get into the specifics of route changes in a moment.

But hopefully between these two maps, you're able to see the uh greatly enhanced amount of red lines on the map on the right.

You also may notice some of those tan blobs or those tan zones.

Those are the on-demand services that will be operating under MARDA Reach, and we have two of those in the city of South Fulton as well that I'll detail shortly.

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So here, again, this is some of the specific changes coming to the city of South Fulton.

We'll kind of focus on the Fulton Industrial area first and then focused on the rest of the city in the following slide.

So I'll show you the map here.

This is a map of the next gen bus routes in South Fulton, generally in the Fulton Industrial Corridor.

What you see here is Route 73 and red operating 15-minute frequent service along much of Fulton Industrial Boulevard.

The new network will actually offer that frequent service further down Fulton Industrial Boulevard than today.

You can also see a couple of other connections coming into Fulton Industrial Boulevard, Route 71 coming out of Atlanta on Cascade Road.

That route is largely unchanged.

And then you also see a brand new route that'll be the Route 80 on Campbellton Road coming out of East Point.

That one will actually serve the Sand Town Crossing area before it turns up Fulton Industrial to connect with Route 73.

That one actually will provide our first service to the Amazon facility, and it actually won't be too far away from the Manheim auto auction facility down on Campbellton either.

Places we've had requests for service as well as Sand Town Crossing.

You'll notice in that area that there is a tan on demand zone for Fulton Industrial, kind of in the vicinity of Fulton Industrial and Boat Rock.

And so that MARTA reach zone will really help us make first and last mile connections into the industrial parks to major employers and to some residents in the area to places where our buses are kind of traditional large MARDA buses can't go easily.

It'll provide them a first and last mile connection off of that frequent service with Route 73.

You'll also notice a T icon kind of in the center around Fulton Industrial and Boat Rock, where we're looking to establish a transfer point.

So that is a location, like I mentioned, where we'll have those time transfers, buses coming together, and so we're making uh working to make some infrastructure upgrades to make sure we've got sidewalks, shelters, and some pedestrian amenities for those transfers.

In the next slide,

I

think we have just a list of those changes here.

Um covered, I think each one of those.

So I think we can proceed on to the next slide, which will show another

map.

So

on this slide, you can see kind of along the uh I-85 corridor and old National Highway.