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Originally Posted by PoscStudent
Mount Pearl could have small buses that go through the city and Metrobus could have one or two locations where they pick up people. The smaller buses could revolve around those area[s] so that people can still use Metrobus to get into St. John's but they'd have their own bus system that could get them into more areas of Mount Pearl. They could partner with Paradise.
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This would probably be the ideal solution. Mount Pearl could use a system similar to Corner Brook which uses small busses (24 passenger) with services focussed on rush hours (7-9am and 4-6pm). The remainder of the time they only operate 2 routes, one circuit around the west side, downtown and Curling, the other through downtown, Townsite and Humbermouth with transfers between the 2 available at Park Street.
Mount Pearl could run probably 3 routes in the city at all times, maybe 4-5 for the busier rush hours and route them into a central location to meet Metrobus. I don't know Mount Pearl very well, but I would assume that if they operated a system just within their city they would get decent ridership numbers to the industrial parks.
The key to the system would be Metrobus putting in a good connector from Mount Pearl to the institutes and downtown St. John's.