WeRIDE’s overwhelming success as a microtransit service has proven that car-centric communities can adopt and even embrace public transit, as long as cities and transit agencies provide service that actually meets their communities’ mobility needs. Avondale, Goodyear, and Surprise have done just that, not only surpassing their initial operational and service goals, but earning recognition for their collaboration in introducing an innovative mobility solution that has fundamentally changed how people move throughout their cities.
As is common with low-density suburban communities, Avondale, Goodyear, and Surprise in Arizona’s Maricopa County were neighboring cities where residents relied on personal vehicles as their primary means of getting around. To test if these car-centric communities could adapt to using public transit, they partnered together to implement the WeRIDE microtransit service across their three cities.
Together with ºÚÁÏÍø, Avondale, Goodyear, and Surprise have delivered a microtransit service that enables increased mobility. Operating as separate programs under the WeRIDE brand, each leverage ºÚÁÏÍø’s industry-leading on-demand transit technology, adapting service to meet the differing needs of their communities and ridership.
