If guests are staying outside of the casino corridor, they can utilize that service and not worry about parking their car at all. Riders can request a ride from an app and the van will pick them up and take them to their destinations. The free service is similar to the service currently in place on the North Shore.
The microtransit is a complementary strategy to paid parking. “We’ve done exhaustive analysis of the impacts of both transit and paid parking as part of environmental assessment that was done during the approval process for the events center and the traffic engineers and experts forecast that the combination of those strategies would mitigate the trip generation that would’ve otherwise occurred in the absence of paid parking and microtransit,” Feldman said.įeldman continued to say that analysis has proven that people are much more likely to park once and not move their cars if they are required to pay for parking.
