The TDP has funded planned improvements for Route 31. Route 31 increases weekday service frequency to 30 minutes and adds weekend service with a 60-minute frequency. Unfunded planned improvements include two new local bus routes in South Hillsborough County, two more FLEX routes, and a South County Transit Center. Based on H ART’s Service Ridership Summary, Route 47LX (which was eliminated due to Mission Max) performed 75% or higher above the express system average. In addition, HART Route 31 typically performed 60% or lower than the local system and express system averages, respectively. The South County Flex is among the poorest performing flex routes. A SouthShore Circulator Study published in 2014 was created to: …a ssess the need for transit circulator service to connect the existing and future residential, employment, and activity centers within the SouthShore Area and develop the best alternative and implementation plan to provide input into the Hillsborough County Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) and Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART) Plans (Hillsborough MPO, 2018b, p.1). Previous study alternatives included HART Planned Service with FishHawk connection, figure 8 configuration, two one-way loops with local service to Brandon Mall and Fishhawk, two two- way loops, extended flex to Riverview High School, and no FishHawk extension. The recommended alternative from the previous transit study is provided in Figure 39.
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