ETI – Shelters and Benches

Installation

This document is meant to outline implementation goals and strategies for the installation of Essential Transit Infrastructure (ETI) at GRTC local stops and transit facilities. This is one of several GRTC strategic initiatives planned that aim to address the various impediments to transit access and ultimately inequities. GRTC champions social and economic mobility by prioritizing connecting people to essential human services and needs. With proper operational and capital investment, transit is a factor that can improve overall quality of life.

GRTC is using a scoring system that considers usage and equity to determine which stops qualify for improvements.

The attached spreadsheet shows the ETI Plan Installation preliminary installation goals, considering only existing ETI and rubric thresholds.

Consider this list as the starting point of the Aspirational Scenario approved by our Board of Directors (PDF) (Excel).

GRTC staff have completed and reviewed the analysis and are beginning to provide an updated installation goals list by stop.

Next steps:

GRTC staff is performing site visits to evaluate on-the-ground conditions and the feasibility of preliminary installation goals. This process will wrap up in summer 2025.
GRTC staff is coordinating with jurisdictional partners to see where opportunities exist to collaborate on grant applications and in-progress construction projects. Ongoing projects and funding sources will inform both installation goals and timelines.
GRTC is coordinating with the jurisdictions on evaluating priorities that have been expressed to representatives and those priorities are being incorporated into the plan.

Stops recommended for ETI installation in this updated list will move on to the next steps: conceptual approval by the jurisdictions and engineering.