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

[Jo Claxton]

Thanks Wes and Daniel!
I'm happy to make posters/marketing etc. whether we do the joint promotion
or just our own Welcome back buses poster.
-jo


On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 1:47 PM Wes Mills <wesmills at wesmills.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 at 11:10 AM, Wes Mills <wesmills at wesmills.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
> :)
>
> 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!
>
> Thanks (and sorry!),
> Wes
>
>
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