Title
Public Transit Regional Fare Policy Administrative Modifications (Ordinance S-45636)
Description
Request to authorize the City Manager, or his designee, to amend the Public Transit Fare Policy for the City of Phoenix Public Transit system to make administrative modifications. This amendment does not impact the General Fund.
Report
Summary
Transit fares are regional, and the City works in conjunction with Valley Metro in establishing and updating fares and the region’s fare policy. Over the past 10 years a number of Council-approved service and fare policy changes have been implemented by the Public Transit Department, including changes to Phoenix Public Transit services provided and the fares charged to public transit users. Staff have identified some administrative modifications to the current fare policy ordinance needed to accurately reflect all Council-approved transit services, fares, and fare program changes made in recent years.
Modifications to the Public Transit Fare Policy proposed by staff focus primarily on updating the Dial-a-Ride (DAR)/paratransit section of the Fare Policy to better describe the applicability of Dial-a-Ride fares, eliminate fares identified for same day Phoenix Dial-a-Ride service that is no longer provided as of 2011, and reflect the FY 2017-18 addition of Valley Metro’s Regional Paratransit service and corresponding elimination of Dial-a-Ride transfers, and other administrative updates (see Attachment A - Markup of Revisions). These changes to the Fare Policy are administrative in nature only and have no impact to passenger fares. See Attachment B - Revised Fare Policy for the final policy document.
Financial Impact
This update to the Public Transit Fare Policy has no financial impact to the City of Phoenix or the regional transit system.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Mario Paniagua and the Public Transit Department.