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Originally Posted by DrHitch
Start small:
Only use the trolley buses to go to the three (four) squares for SPECIAL EVENTS ONLY.
The trolleys are "owned" by The Villages real estate group as a way transport prospective buyers to new home areas. So, that organization will have to decide if it's profitable to use their vehicles as a free/paid shuttle...but, onboard advertising may get passengers to buy new houses!!!
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Fine - they go to the squares for special events only. Where will they come FROM? What will be their route? How many of these buses will there be? Where do they pick passengers up, on their way to the squares?
Are they picking passengers up at their homes? That's around 80,000 homes. You'll need a lot of busses - not because all 80k people are going somewhere that day but - because those 80k people are spread out over around 70 square miles of property. If ONE person in the Historic section wants to go to an event at Brownwood, someone's gonna have to get the bus up that end, to pick up that one person.
That's why I think a network, a transportation routing system - is the best option.