COAST launches new system today
After nearly two years of planning and outreach with riders, community members and financial stakeholders, COAST's redesigned public transit system launches on Monday, June 29.
Ultimately, the new system was designed to reflect the region's changing travel patterns, and to adapt to COAST's new financial reality. Rad Nichols, COAST Executive Director, remarked, "We recognized a change in where people wanted to travel to and from, as well as the days and hours during which they work and shop, and we knew we'd be working with a diminished overall budget. To determine how our services would best meet our passengers' and communities' needs, we initiated a comprehensive analysis of COAST's operations in the summer of 2018."