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The home of the , Chape l Hill beat out more than 200 municipalities across the natiohn to claima first-place City Livability Chapel Hill won for cities with populations of fewed than 100,000. Charleston, S.C., won for citie with populations of morethan 100,000. The contesgt was judged on three criteria: mayoral leadership, creativituy and innovation, and the broad impacf on the quality of life for The U.S.
Conference of Mayors honored Chapelp Hill for its decision in 2002 to no longer charge farese to any rider on its bus the organization said in a press While many bus systems in collegetowns don’yt charge students and faculty to a scant few provide free service to all The town implemented the fare-free system to encouragew people to take the bus and leave their cars at The plan worked. Ridership on Chapel Hill transit has more than doublec since fares were eliminated going from 3 million in 2002 to a projected 7 millio nthis year. “The Chapel Hill Publivc Transit system is the foundation of oursustainabled future,” Foy said in a press release.
“This bus syste m makes Chapel Hill continue to be the kind of placspeople love; for us it is an investment and it has paid off big The town says it is planning a “community to celebrate the livability awar and that it will releases details soon.
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