[Transit] “Sponsored” Welcone Back Buses route 47 idea update

[Wes Mills]

This is what I’d typed out as the pitch, hopefully that answers what you are after. :) Thank you for helping!

Elevator pitch: A joint promotion with businesses along that section, like the two main coffee shops (Analog and Top Pot) and a handful of others, to celebrate “welcome back, buses!”  This would also serve as a “transit riders ride transit to spend money with you” kind of thing.

Details: TRU would provide marketing—flyers, logo promotion, outreach, “these businesses are good businesses for transit”.

The business would provide space for us to put up a celebratory poster and some form of token discount, either all day (while the new route 3 bus is running or the length of the SDOT party, if there is one) or for a couple of hours mid-day (we would need to gauge interest here, I think they’re more likely to go for a mid-day approach), to people who show up flashing an ORCA card, paper transfer, or TRU swag.

TRU members—BATS and whomever else would like to come—would do our group celebration ride during this period as well.

On Tue, Aug 6, 2024, at 12:44, Daniel Heppner wrote:
> I can probably take this on. What exactly were you thinking of asking them? I live nearby so I can walk over there easily too.
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> On Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 11:10 AM, Wes Mills <wesmills at wesmills.com> wrote:
>> Hey all,
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>> I know I’ve had it on my plate from the last couple of BATS meetings to reach out to local businesses on the path of the route 47 that is going to have bus service restored, and see if we can do a joint “sponsored” welcome back buses event.
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>> Problem is, I’ve been really busy at work and with some life stuff that’s popped up so I haven’t had time to do the outreach.  And now, I am going to be on-call for 2/3rds of August.
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>> Time runs short, so I wanted to throw it out there that I am blocked.  If someone would like to pick it up, awesome, otherwise I think we can stick with having a time when TRU folks do a celebratory ride on September 14th. :)
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>> If we do have a celebratory ride—which I would love to do—I think we can still make posters welcoming buses back to the area and ask businesses to put them up in the two weeks before the bus service change.  That feels like it would be a lot faster to turn around.  But that largely depends on if anyone knows how to make a good poster!
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>> Thanks (and sorry!),
>> Wes
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